{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67bf0d339f45343122e9f35d/67bf0fe79f45343122ea8d18?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jennifer Nansubuga 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><ul><li>Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half</li><li>Yvonne Battle-Felton, Curdle Creek</li><li>Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart</li></ul><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;Arrow of Good</p><ul><li>Ngugi wa Thiong’o</li><li>Wole Soyinka</li><li>Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift</li></ul><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;The Furrows</p><ul><li>Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay With Me</li><li>Ayesha Haruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga</li><li>Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley</li></ul><p>&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><p><br></p><p>The host in this episode is Åshild Lappegård Lahn</p><p>Editing and production by the House of Literature</p><p>Music by Ibou Cissokho</p><p><br></p><p><em>The House of Literature’s project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD.</em></p>","author_name":"Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset"}