Breaking Kintu's curse will finally bring them all together in the conclusion of this hugely dramatic story. His actions have ramifications for all his descendants, for those that been scattered across the globe over the years. Once a respectable man, Kintu Kidda is ruined. He is cursed and leaves his village in solitude. It set off a chain of events that would shape his life thereafter and ultimately see him torn from the remainder of his family. Two hundred and fifty years prior to the incident with the concrete slab, a freak accident lead to a fa`ther murdering his own son it was an accident he never forgave himself for. I found this such an effective piece of storytelling, the idea that the history of our ancestors never full leaves us and has the potential to one day assert itself in our present age. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. He is then brained with a concrete slab his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task of dealing with her man's debt. In just a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Uganda. Kintu opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness.
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