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Coming Soon: New Novel "Kampala Dollar Cache Snaps Village Wires"

By Namuddu - December 27, 2023

In Ninnzi, 150 km from Kampala, Lukiya Nalweyiso, the chairperson of the village's saving group, threatens to report the treasurer to the police about the missing funds. Then Nalweyiso disappears from her house that night. Ssali, her husband, tells authorities, but they are suspicious. Has he killed her, or is it the treasurer and her jobless husband who have abducted her? Katherine Namuddu, the author of 'Her Husband’s Crown', 'Chameleon’s League' and 'The Maws to Plaza Trilogy', is back with a new thrilling novel set in her village of Ninnzi. Stay tuned for more...

Rending Spleen is the third book in the “Maws to Plaza Trilogy”. Balamaze is ready to resume work, but what should he do since a family member is managing his business? After some minor challenges, he finally opts for a position that seems to make everyone happy. Then, two children decide to get married throwing the family into a crisis with ambers stoked in greed for money. With the enormous demands of fulfilling modernized and cultural wedding norms, each child asserts his or her ambitions to the maximum. Will the children’s pursuits split the family asunder?

Humming Poverty

“Humming Poverty”, the first book in the ‘Maws to Plaza Trilogy’, introduces Balamaze, a Ugandan boy, born in a rural village. With a tyrant of a father and a life of stinking poverty, Balamaze roams the village. He finds sickly poor people at home, while the rich, who own good houses are in their shops in town. He therefore dreams of going to the city, and becoming rich so as to build a plaza. Using this mantra, he takes a big risk and dedicates his all to set up a half-a-stall market business that eventually grows into a large company. Where will all this drive leave his relationship with his wife and the children?

The Umpires

Ncacanca’s internship at a big company ends abruptly in “The Umpires” which is the second and final book in the series ‘Ncacanca’s Durable Pledge’. This leaves her with a six months wait to go to Makerere? Will her main sponsor, the architect of the Durable Pledge help? As she waits, Ncacanca begins to umpire the total package of assistance that she received over eight years. What questions will emerge in her mind about its nature and purpose? How will ‘The Umpires’ judge the success of the Durable Pledge with regards to Bakka and Ncacanca?

The Hewers

‘The Hewers’ is the first in a two-book series; “Ncacanca’s Durable Pledge”. Ncacanca is orphaned at five years of age with her three-year old brother, Bakka, in the mid-1980s. Two sets of their foster parents die within six years leading to beliefs that the children carry a killer curse. Then a village farmer adopts Bakka while a city lawyer takes Ncacanca. Will it be the farmer or lawyer to shepherd their ward well? If both fail who will pick up the pieces? Discover how Ncacanca and her brother negotiate a six-year remarkable life journey.