![]() As a child, I lived with my dad, but he was brutalised during Idi Amin’s regime and lost his mind, so I went to live with my aunt aged about 10. I didn’t meet my mother until I was perhaps 10 and used to have to think about that question. “How does it feel to have a mother?” is one of the questions at the core of the book. Her new book, The First Woman, is a powerful feminist rendition of Ugandan origin tales, charting the young girl Kirabo’s journey to find her place in the world. She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell prize for fiction in 2018. Her first short story collection, Manchester Happened, was published in 2019. ![]() ![]() Her first novel, Kintu, was longlisted for the Etisalat prize in 2014 and she won the Commonwealth Short Story prize in the same year. J ennifer Nansubuga Makumbi was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1967, and now lives in Manchester. ![]()
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