6/20/2023 0 Comments Jennifer nansubuga makumbiThis legend is encoded in the title of Kintu, a historical novel by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, which won the 2013 Kwani? Manuscript Prize. Despite her attempts, Walumbe clung to her and in this way death came to earth and has tormented humanity ever since. Walumbe immediately found her and insisted on following her. The next morning, on their way to earth, Nnambi remembered that she had left behind some grains for her chicken and so she went back. After the creator tested Kintu by setting impossible tasks-eating enough food for a hundred people, splitting rocks with an axe, fetching water in a woven basket-he assented and told Kintu and Nnambi to return to earth secretly, in order not to attract the attention of one of Nnambi’s brothers, Walumbe (Death). Her brothers insisted that the creator had to consent the marriage, and so Kintu and Nnambi were taken to heaven. Nnambi fell in love with Kintu and decided to marry him. She was with her brothers, all from heaven, where their father, the creator, lived. From the sky came Nnambi, a beautiful woman, and she saw Kintu with his cow in the plains of Buganda. Kintu, according to the Ganda, came to Uganda with his cow and lived as the first person there.
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