How long does it take to read Kintu?
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi takes about 8 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 7 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 443 pages, about 121,825 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
'First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu's descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future." --back cover
Subjects: Origin, Chiefdoms, Ugandan fiction (English), Families, Ethnohistory, History
