Kintu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kintu write by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Kintu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel write by Maaza Mengiste. This book was released on 2011-01-03. Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement—a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut.
The First Woman
The First Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Woman write by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. This book was released on 2020-08-13. The First Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'In Jennifer Makumbi, we have a giant of literature living among us.' Peter Kalu, Jhalak Prize Judge Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards, 2021 'Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller.' Reni Eddo-Lodge A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR At once epic and deeply personal, the second novel from prize-winning author Jennifer Makumbi is an intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism that will linger in the memory long after the final page. As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her – questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself. Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of 'The First Woman'.
The Ugandan Morality Crusade
The Ugandan Morality Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ugandan Morality Crusade write by Deborah Kintu. This book was released on 2017-12-21. The Ugandan Morality Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda's autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as "un-African" and against Biblical teaching. A state-sanctioned campaign of harassment of LGBT people followed. With the approval of sections of Uganda's clergy (and with the support of U.S. evangelicals) harsh morality laws were passed against pornography and homosexual acts. The former law disproportionately affected urban women, curtailing their freedoms. The latter--known as the "kill the gays bill"--called for life imprisonment or capital punishment for homosexuals. The author weaves together a series of vignettes that trace the development of Uganda's morality laws amidst Machiavellian politics, religious fundamentalism and the human rights struggle of LGBT Ugandans.
Kintu's Mistake
Kintu's Mistake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kintu's Mistake write by . This book was released on 1996. Kintu's Mistake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kintu, the first man on earth, passes the tests required to marry the first woman but fails to heed her warning and consequently brings death into the world.
