October 1, 2021
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Alex Wheatle, Dapo Adeola and Nathan Bryon are among those shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards, celebrating inclusive titles across adult, YA […]
May 30, 2021
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won this year’s Jhalak prize for writers of colour with her novel The First Woman, with Patrice Lawrence winning the award’s inaugural children’s […]
March 4, 2021
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 […]
January 6, 2021
Who do you turn to when the adults will not answer your questions and your spirit leaves your body? In Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s second novel, you […]
January 6, 2021
Uganda’s Chinua Achebe Jennifer Makumbi’s new novel, The First Woman, published this year has received a rapturous reception both from critics as well as from her […]
December 24, 2020
For girls growing up in India, there are several names used for our vaginas: susu, nunoo, and perhaps most tellingly, “shame-shame.” As in, “Close your legs, your […]
December 8, 2020
Every year when the holidays roll around, many of us get a rare, much-needed break from the world. In this issue of OZY’s Weekender we want […]
November 11, 2020
The 15 nominees for this year’s Aspen Words Literary Prize span the globe and the headlines — from Uganda to Palestine to Miami to rural North […]
September 26, 2020
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi sets her blazing new novel, “A Girl Is a Body of Water,” in the conflicted nation of her adolescence: 1970s Uganda, under the […]