The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021

Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Smart, headstrong Kirabo is raised by her grandparents in rural Uganda. But as she enters her teens, she starts to feel overshadowed by the absence of the mother she has never known. At once epic and deeply personal, Kirabo is the bold and piercing story of one young girl's discovery of what it means to be a woman in a family, a community and a country that seem determined to...Read more