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