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Jennifer Makumbi’s tale of Kintu

The title of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s debut novel Kintu evokes the legend of the origin of the Baganda people in central Uganda.

The Baganda believe that Kintu was the first man on earth and therefore epitomises how creation, trouble, unhappiness and death began.

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