Her Husband's Crown - Brossura

Namuddu, Katherine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1482804018 ISBN 13: 9781482804010

Casa editrice: PartridgeAfrica, 2014

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"A fascinating exploration of the changing face of social customs and gender politics." - Kirkus Reviews Nansamba is married off aged sixteen to young Ggalabuzi from a neighboring village. It is an arranged marriage in 1940s rural Uganda and she works hard to build a prosperous household together with her easy-going and hardworking husband. Twelve years into the marriage, Ggalabuzi exercises his male right to enter into a second marriage without telling his wife; and does so with her younger sister Mucwa. Nansamba navigates this hazardous marital and familial road with extraordinary wisdom, courage and dignity. At twenty-eight, educated, city-born Biiti is considered an old maid. Her anxious relatives find her a rural husband past his prime and with a secret history. He soon destroys their marriage and she abandons it to become a successful businesswoman and anchor of her family. For a quarter of a century relatives, friends and in-laws from Nansamba and Biiti's families crisscross each other's lives and create much drama and many children, including four sets of twins.

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L'autore:

Katherine Namuddu was born in Uganda and educated there and in the United States. She taught at Makerere, Nairobi, and Kenyatta universities. She worked for many years with the Rockefeller Foundation of New York. She is advisor on African higher education and lives in Kampala and Nninzi Village in Kalisizo Township.

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• Editore: PartridgeAfrica
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1482804018
• ISBN 13: 9781482804010
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252