5/9/2023 0 Comments Kintu book reviewThough I only review a small percentage of the books I read, I think I can confidently say that ‘Kintu’ is my first Ugandan novel. For the record, I’m the one who sets the categories and they’re largely based on publicity around the books combined with where they are set (Omotoso’s wonderful book is set in South Africa, while the internet calls her a ‘South-African based writer’ who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. Of these, ‘ Cockroaches’ by Scholastique Mukasonga is Rwandan, ‘ The First Wife’ by Chiziane Paulina is Mozambique and ‘ The Woman Next Door’ by Yewande Omotoso is South African. This blog is a rather shameful example I don’t specifically seek out stories from Africa and the result is that I’ve only reviewed eight novels categorised as African Literature. Even with increasing representation in publishing, there still seem to be hierarchies for what stories are easily available. There are so many barriers to publishing novels, especially novels from less-often heard voices, I always assume that anything that makes it into the bookshops must be pretty exceptional.
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