Instead, he inadvertently causes the death of his own son and awakens a curse that will plague his offspring for generations. While his body lies unclaimed in the mortuary, we follow Kintu’s lineage back to 1750, when the ambitious Kintu Kidda journeys with his tribe to pay tribute to the new regent of the Kingdom of Buganda, with whom he hopes to gain favor. In 2004, a man named Kamu Kintu is branded a thief and killed by a vicious crowd. Makumbi’s debut novel is a sprawling family chronicle that explores Uganda’s national identity through a brilliant interlacing of history, politics, and myth.
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