Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi advises against Kwani Trust edition of “Kintu.”

While the Manchester-based Ugandan has moved on to bigger and better things, her first novel Kintu has had mixed success on the continent for her. While the book is hugely popular, by 2016 her Kenyan-based publisher was having problems with printing and distributing the title. At the same time, Kwani seemed to run into trouble as a publisher; Makumbi withdrew the rights for the novel which she sold to Oneworld, the sold distributer of Kintu in Anglophone Africa.

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