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The first woman
- Title
- The first woman / Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
- Author
- Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
- Publication
- London : Oneworld, 2021.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 437 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has. Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women. Her grandmother, her aunts, her friends and cousins are all desperate for her to conform, but Kirabo is inquisitive, headstrong and determined. Up until now, she has been perfectly content with her life at the heart of this prosperous extended family, but as she enters her teenage years, she begins to feel the absence of the mother she has never known. The First Woman follows Kirabo on her journey to becoming a young woman and finding her place in the world, as her country is transformed by the bloody dictatorship of Idi Amin. Jennifer Makumbi has written a sweeping tale of longing and rebellion, at once epic and deeply personal, steeped in an intoxicating mix of ancient Ugandan folklore and modern feminism, that will linger in the memory long after the final page.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Ugandan fiction (English)
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- Originally published: 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 435).
- Awards (note)
- "Winner of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, 2021"--Page 4 of cover
- Contents
- The witch -- The bitch -- Utopia -- When the villages were young -- Why penned hens peck each other.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-395
- ISBN
- 9781786078582 (paperback)
- 1786078589 (paperback)
- LCCN
- jb2021073831
- OCLC
- 1287032630
- Author
- Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga, author.
- Title
- The first woman / Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
- Publisher
- London : Oneworld, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 435).
- Awards
- "Winner of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, 2021"--Page 4 of cover
- Chronological Term
- 1971-1979
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-395