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Kintu Quotes
Kintu
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi4,513 ratings, 4.10 average rating, 678 reviews
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“But on the ground, history looks nothing like this clash of nations and empires and states, however true and valid such stories may be on their terms; on the ground, history is the accumulated prejudices, hopes, and superstitions that we carry even if we don’t understand how we acquired them, everything we don’t know that makes us who we are. History is a fabric of memories and fear and forgetting, of longing and nostalgia, of invention and re-creation. History is bunk, and sometimes it’s a good thing it is.”
― Kintu
― Kintu
“The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth. What he returned to were people struggling to survive, who in the process had lost the ability to discern the vivid colours of right and wrong. Anything that gave them a chance to survive was moral.”
― Kintu
― Kintu
“It means he’s read a lot of books.’ ‘Listen to that, a doctor of books! What use is that to this village?”
― Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
― Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
“In the media, an avalanche of negative images of an Africa quickly sinking into anarchy so soon after independence overwhelmed him. Horror stories were broadcast with glee and broke the resolve of so many black activists.”
― Kintu
― Kintu
“The mind was a curse: its ability to go back in time to regret and to hop into the future to hope and worry was not a blessing.”
― Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
― Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
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“My view is that they came on earth, did their thing and now they have bowed out. Who is to say that things are not right?
Nature is as ugly as it is beautiful. People drop dead, people kill each other, people go hungry: you don’t dwell, you just exist. But then this other world comes along and gives you ideas. You start to think, hmm, I am not right,”
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“My view is that they came on earth, did their thing and now they have bowed out. Who is to say that things are not right?
Nature is as ugly as it is beautiful. People drop dead, people kill each other, people go hungry: you don’t dwell, you just exist. But then this other world comes along and gives you ideas. You start to think, hmm, I am not right,”
― Kintu
