My African Reding List: Jennifer Makumbi

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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