Jambula Tree

Monica Arac de Nyeko · 2006 CE · Short Story · East African · Contemporary

In a Kampala housing estate two girls fall in love, and their attachment is read aloud by the neighbours as scandal. The narrator remembers it after one of them is sent away. It won the Caine Prize in 2007 and became the basis for the film Rafiki.

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