Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: En blodets forbannelse / A lasting curse

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo, Norway | Oslo, OS

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Da britisk-ugandiske Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi ville forsøke å få debutboka si Kintu (til norsk ved Johanne Fronth-Nygren) utgitt i Europa, fikk hun nei fra forlag etter forlag – romanen var «for afrikansk»: Den handlet ikke om kolonitiden, eller om Idi Amin, de to tingene ved Uganda vestlige lesere har kjennskap til. Dessuten hadde karakterene så vanskelige navn. For det er vel ingen europeiske lesere som har lyst til å lære noe de ikke vet fra før om ugandisk historie?
Makumbi har skrevet en episk familiesaga som tar oss med gjennom Ugandas historie – fra kongeriket Buganda før europeerne kom, og til dagens samfunn, der hun kombinerer myter og bibelsk historie med muntlig fortellertradisjon og eventyr. I et lyrisk og fortettet språk møter vi stamfar Kintu på 1700-tallet, som utsettes for en mørk forbannelse, og følger vi hans mange etterkommerne inn vår tid, der de alle på ulike vis strever med sine egne forbannelser. Ikke minst ser vi hvordan slektens menn strever med trange kjønnsroller og hvordan de skal leve opp til samfunnets mannsideal. Kanskje er dette den virkelige forbannelsen, som rammer livene deres en etter en og forgifter hele samfunnet?
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi debuterte med romanen Kintu i 2014, etter å ha vunnet en manuskonkurranse hos kenyanske Kwani Trust. Hun har siden gitt ut novellesamlingen Manchester Happened og romanen The First Woman, og vunnet en rekke priser for sine bøker.
På Litteraturhuset møter hun forfatter og kunstnerisk leder for organisasjonen Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, til samtale om en familie og en nasjon, om forbannelser og forsoning.
Samtalen vil være på engelsk.
Arrangementet er støttet av NORAD.
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When British-Ugandan Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi wanted her debut novel Kintu published in Europe, publisher after publisher told her no – the novel was “too African”: It was neither about the colonial period nor about Idi Amin, the two things about Uganda that Western readers have heard of. And also, the characters had such complicated names. They couldn’t imagine any European readers would like to learn something new about Uganda and its history.
Makumbi’s novel is an epic family saga, taking us through the history of Uganda – from the kingdom of Buganda before the arrival of the Europeans, and up to today’s society, in which she combines myths and Biblical history with fairytales and oral storytelling tradition. In a distilled, lyrical language, we meet the patriarch Kintu in the mid-eighteenth century, when he is subject to a dark curse, before we follow his many descendants into our own time, where they all, in different ways, struggle with curses of their own. We particularly see how the men of the family struggle to live up to society’s masculine ideals. Maybe this is the real curse, affecting each of their lives and slowly poisoning the entire society?
Kintu is Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s first novel, published in 2014 after she won a manuscript competition by Kenyan Kwani Trust. Makumbi has since published the short story collection Manchester Happened and the novel The First Woman, and she has won a number of awards for her writing.
At the House of Literature, she is joined by author and creative director for the organization Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, for a conversation about a family and a nation, about curses and consolation.
The conversation will be in English.
The event is supported by NORAD.
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