# Kumukanda

**Author:** Kayo Chingonyi
**Grade range:** Grades 9–10
**Age range:** 14–15
**First published:** 2017
**Page count:** 64
**Genre:** Poetry
**ISBN-13:** `9781473547032`
**ISBN-10:** `1473547032`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/kumukanda
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

\*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018\* \*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018\* 'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers' Warsan Shire Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man.

## Themes

- poetry

## Where this book is assigned

### Cambridge IGCSE English Literature (0475)

- **required** · 9th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section A (Poetry), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)
- **required** · 10th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section A (Poetry), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)

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