Tragedy strikes and Kintu’s son dies by Kintu’s own hand, an act that haunts his family down the generations. His name echoes the creation myth in which Kintu is the first person on Earth, but in Makumbi’s hands he is just a man: a powerful governor burdened with more wives than he would like, on a journey to pay homage to the new king. We are then taken back to the 18th century and the eponymous Kintu. As three market sellers speculate about his bad fortune, one mentions “the curse”. This Ugandan debut novel begins in 2004 with the death of a man who is killed by a mob after being mistaken for a thief.
From a Commonwealth short story prizewinner comes a masterful epic that examines Uganda’s history through generations of a cursed family.
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