Mar 02 2025 27 mins 1
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan British writer, known for her debut novel Kintu, as well as the short story collection Manchester Happened and the novel The First Woman. She has been awarded the Coomonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and also been named one of the 100 most influental Africans by New African magazine.
This is Makumbi’s reading list:
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
Yvonne Battle-Felton, Curdle Creek
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Arrow of Good
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Wole Soyinka
Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
The Furrows
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay With Me
Ayesha Haruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley
River Spirit
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