{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/608ffeb592d6e972787e1f7e/67ade0dc8415e55e8a63c57c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"My African Reding List: Jennifer Makumbi","description":"<p>Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan British writer, known for her debut novel <em>Kintu</em>, as well as the short story collection <em>Manchester Happened </em>and the novel <em>The First Woman</em>. 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 <em>New African </em>magazine.</p><p><br></p><p>This is Makumbi’s reading list:</p><p><br></p><p>Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half</p><p><br></p><p>Yvonne Battle-Felton, Curdle Creek</p><p><br></p><p>Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Arrow of Good</p><p><br></p><p>Ngugi wa Thiong’o</p><p><br></p><p>Wole Soyinka</p><p><br></p><p>Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Furrows</p><p><br></p><p>Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay With Me</p><p><br></p><p>Ayesha Haruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga</p><p><br></p><p>Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;River Spirit</p>","author_name":"The House of Literature in Oslo - Litteraturhuset"}