Inheritance
with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Iryn Tushabe
Hosted by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
In Person Streaming Fiction Politics History
We, the Kindling is an extraordinary accomplishment, a novel of voices liberating themselves from horror but equally from spectacle and instrumentalization, voices freed from conventional narration so that we may sense, in their spare beauty and insistent aliveness, that which might yet emerge from catastrophe.”
Join us for a taste of two of the year’s most acclaimed debut Canadian novels, celebrated stories set in Uganda, and a conversation on the ways we are shaped by–and in opposition to–our histories and cultures.
We, the Kindling is the acclaimed debut from Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-winner Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and is centred around the unforgettable voices of schoolgirls in Uganda captured by the Lord's Resistance Army in the 1990s. Those who survive bear the physical and psychological weight of these experiences—often within communities that wish only to forget or ignore them.
Everything Is Fine Here, the debut from Journey Prize-winner Iryn Tushabe is a coming of age story set in Uganda.
Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating a reunion with her older sister, Mbabazi, for months. But when Mbabazi shows up with an unexpected guest, Aine must confront an old fear: her beloved sister is gay in a country with tight anti-homosexuality laws.
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