TY  - BOOK
AU  - Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
TI  - The first woman
SN  - 9781786078582
AV  - PR9402.9.M35 F57 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Oneworld
KW  - Women
KW  - Uganda
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Autonomy (Psychology)
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Self-realization
KW  - History
KW  - 1971-1979
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Originally published: 2020
N2  - For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has.

Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women. Her grandmother, her aunts, her friends and cousins are all desperate for her to conform, but Kirabo is inquisitive, headstrong and determined. Up until now, she has been perfectly content with her life at the heart of this prosperous extended family, but as she enters her teenage years, she begins to feel the absence of the mother she has never known. The First Woman follows Kirabo on her journey to becoming a young woman and finding her place in the world, as her country is transformed by the bloody dictatorship of Idi Amin.

Jennifer Makumbi has written a sweeping tale of longing and rebellion, at once epic and deeply personal, steeped in an intoxicating mix of ancient Ugandan folklore and modern feminism, that will linger in the memory long after the final page
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