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Kintu (novel)
Kintu is a novel by Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/656784-jennifer-makumbi-s-novel-evokes-marvels-during-writivism-week.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/Jennifer-Nansubuga-Makumbi-FLIPS-THE-script/-/1950774/2372016/-/format/xhtml/-/llqk6pz/-/index.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.africabookclub.com/?p=16276&utm_source=Africa+Book+Club+Update+January+2015&utm_campaign=ConstantContact&utm_medium=email )〕 It was her doctoral novel, initially titled ''The Kintu Saga''. It was shortlisted,〔(Interview with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, shortlisted for her novel The Kintu Saga ), kwani.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.〕 and won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013.〔(Winner: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The Kintu Saga ), kwani.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.〕 It was published by Kwani trust in 2014 under the title, "Kintu".〔(Kwani Trust launch award-winning writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's debut novel Kintu ), kwani.org. Retrieved 2 July 2014.〕
==Plot==
In 1754, Kintu Kidda, Ppookino of Buddu Province, in the kingdom of Buganda, sets out on a journey to the capital where he is to pledge allegiance to the new kabaka of the realm. Along the way, a rash action in a moment of anger unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Time passes and the nation of Uganda is born. Through colonial occupation and the turbulent early years of independence, Kintu’s heirs survive the loss of their land, the denigration of their culture and the ravages of war. But the story of their ancestor and his twin wives Nnakato and Babirye endures. So too does the curse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://africawrites.org/book-launch/new-africa-fashion/ )〕 Kintu’s descendants seek to break the burden of the curse and to reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. The novel explores the power of a curse African society and the myth and power that surrounds twins. It describes how the princes of Buganda fought and killed each other for the throne and the role of the Queen Mothers in this power play.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/-/434746/2405922/-/i2jynfz/-/index.html )〕
The bookstarts with a prologue about Kamu Kintu, who is brutally murdered by a mob in Bwaise, a Kampala suburb, at dawn, on Monday January 5, 2004. The novel then takes you back to 1750, to the beginning of the curse in the old kingdom of Buganda. Kintu follows the misfortunes of the Kintu clan more than 250 years ago, blending Ganda oral tradition, forms of myth, folktale and history with biblical elements. The novel explores ideas of transgression, curse and perpetuity, looking back at the history of Buganda Kingdom and tracing the birth of modern Uganda.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Jennifer-Makumbi-narrates-the-Ugandan-story-in-Kintu/-/691232/2363676/-/nhbwom/-/index.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://africainwords.com/2014/11/12/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbis-kintu-made-me-want-to-tell-our-stories/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/12/5/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbis-brikintui )〕
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