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The call for submissions asserted a firm belief that ‘there is no greater celebration of emergent forms than in publishing our own’ with Billy Kahora and Kate Haines of Kwani? outlining what they saw as the task of ‘building on the foundations and innovations of the African novel, from Wole Soyinka to Meja Mwangi to Alain Mabanckou’. When Kwani? launched its Manuscript Project competition in 2012 the stated aim was to find the best unpublished novels by writers from across Africa-and to publish them for readers across Africa. Jennifer Makumbi’s 2014 novel Kintu has been hailed as “The Great Ugandan Novel.” Ellah Allfrey is against any efforts to “explain” it to American readers.
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