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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
2025 Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Introduction: Stephanie Newell, Professor of English
Jennifer Makumbi introduces her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned, followed by a reading and discussion.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan fiction writer and author of The First Woman (A Girl Is a Body of Water in US/Canada), Kintu, and Manchester Happened (Let’s Tell This Story Properly in US/Canada). As Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale (2024–25), she is completing her pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned. She is a recipient of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize (2018). She also won the Global Commonwealth Short story prize in 2014. She has a Ph.D. from Lancaster University and has taught in several universities in the United Kingdom.
Cosponsored by Yale MacMillan Center Council on African Studies
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
2025 Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Introduction: Stephanie Newell, Professor of English
Jennifer Makumbi introduces her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned, followed by a reading and discussion.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan fiction writer and author of The First Woman (A Girl Is a Body of Water in US/Canada), Kintu, and Manchester Happened (Let’s Tell This Story Properly in US/Canada). As Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale (2024–25), she is completing her pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned. She is a recipient of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize (2018). She also won the Global Commonwealth Short story prize in 2014. She has a Ph.D. from Lancaster University and has taught in several universities in the United Kingdom.
Cosponsored by Yale MacMillan Center Council on African Studies
