![]() ![]() ![]() In narrating the aetiological myth of her people, Makumbi bridges metonymic gaps between two languages – core and marginal. With her unique style of story-telling and intelligent use of analepsis and prolepsis to (re)construct spatial and temporal settings of a people’s history, Makumbi succeeds in giving readers an evocative historical text. Her creative impulse is compelling, considering her narration of a riveting multi-layered historiography of (B)-Uganda nation in her debut novel, Kintu. The Ugandan has succeeded in writing herself into global reckoning by telling a completely absorbing and canon-worthy epic. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is, without doubt, one of the finest literary writers to have come out of East Africa. ![]()
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