• Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 19 July 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with...
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  • Lawino (Acholi: Wer pa Lawino) is an epic poem written by Ugandan poet Okot p'Bitek. It was first published in 1966 in an English translation by the author...
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  • of Lawino, well known in African literature, was written in Acholi by Okot p'Bitek, although its sequel, Song of Ocol, was written in English.[1] Acholi...
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  • senior leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Okot p'Bitek (1931–1982), Ugandan poet Okot River, Uganda Okot, a forest god in the mythology of the Bicolano...
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    enumerated at 275,613. The district is the birthplace of the poet and writer Okot p'Bitek; former UNLA top military officer Brigadier George William Nyero. Globefeed...
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    Lawino, one of the most successful African literary works, was written by Okot p'Bitek, published in 1966 in Acholi, and later translated to English. Acholiland...
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  • Ngugi), Robert Serumaga, Rajat Neogy (founder of Transition Magazine), Okot p'Bitek, Pio Zirimu (credited with coining the term "orature"), Grace Ogot, Rebecca...
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    Unionist, freedom fighter and Politician Okatch Biggy, musician (Kenyan) Okot p'Bitek, poet and author of the Song of Lawino (Uganda) Olara Otunnu, former...
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    Journal, September 2000, 44 (1): 43–64. Fike, Matthew A., "Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", MELUS, Fall-Winter...
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  • Recipe for Disaster (1994) by Lillian Tindyebwa. Song of Lawino (1966) by Okot p'Bitek Songs of paradise: a harvest of poetry and verse (2009) by James Munange...
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  • along with such writers as Chinua Achebe, Rajat Neogy, Bloke Modisane, Okot p'Bitek, Bernard Fonlon, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Olusegun Olusola, Grace Ogot, Jonathan...
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    Martinson (composed 1956) Helen in Egypt by H.D. (1961) Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek (1966) Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri (1971) Prussian Nights by...
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  • Onwuchekwa Jemie, Nigeria D. J. Opperman, South Africa Niyi Osundare, Nigeria Okot p'Bitek, Uganda Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Ghana Shailja Patel, Kenya Lenrie Peters...
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  • Okigbo (Nigeria) Ben Okri (Nigeria) Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (Kenya) Okot p'Bitek (Uganda) Lenrie Peters (Gambia) Dada Masiti (Somalia) Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo...
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  • Margaret Busby. Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek was born in Kenya in 1966 to Ugandan evacuees. Her father was the late Okot p'Bitek, an internationally recognized...
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  • Okara - Christopher Okigbo - Yambo Ouloguem - Frank Kobina Parkes - Okot p'Bitek - Lenrie Peters - Rabérivelo - Isaac Rammopo - Jorge Rebelo - Arnaldo...
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  • University of Nairobi, Kenya (1976–84), and was also briefly, along with Okot p'Bitek, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, at the invitation of Wole Soyinka...
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  • Thiong'o, Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, and Okot p'Bitek. 1958 – William Heinemann publishes Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart...
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    Group are expected to fund the second stage, starting in June 2021. Okot p'Bitek, poet Taban Lo Liyong, poet and writer Otema Alimadi, former premier...
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    University Joe Oloka-Onyango, former Dean of Law and human rights expert Okot p'Bitek, poet John Ssebuwufu, chemist, former Vice Chancellor of Makerere University...
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    Mphahlele, Robert Serumaga, Rajat Neogy (founder of Transition Magazine), Okot p'Bitek and David Rubadiri. "An approach to Black Aesthetics", in Pio Zirimu;...
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  • Kgositsile Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali Arthur Nortje Mongane Wally Serote Okot p'Bitek Antoine-Rober Bolamba Mukala Kadima-Nzuji Gwendoline Konie Gerald Moore...
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  • literary figures such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Okot p'Bitek, and Taban Lo Liyong, and hermeneutic philosophy, the analysis of African...
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  • is, there is religion." Mbiti faced criticism from the Ugandan writer Okot p'Bitek for casting his arguments in intellectual terms that had been established...
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  • ambassador to the United Nations Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu - poet, dramatist Okot p'Bitek - poet Timothy Wangusa - author, poet, and literature scholar Phillip...
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  • encountered artistic and literary figures including Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Okot P'Bitek and Elimo Njau. He later had a close literary kinship with poet-compatriot...
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  • China write his two books on Mau Mau and publishing Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek. Nottingham later founded his own publishing company, Transafrica Publishers...
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  • Olweny Mark Ouma Denis Owen Raphael Owor Jackson Orem Anne Atai Omoruto Okot p'Bitek John Ruganda Samuel Sejjaaka Hakim Sendagire David Serwadda Hilda Tadria...
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  • (born 1947, Nigeria, d/f) Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974, Nigeria/US, f/ch) Okot p'Bitek (1931–1982, Uganda, p/nf) Ifeoma Okoye (born c. 1937, Nigeria, f/ch)...
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    Makumbi Jason Ntaro Julius Ocwinyo James Munange Ogoola Okello Oculi Okot p'Bitek Bernard Gabriel Okurut Ife Piankhi Rajat Neogy David Rubadiri John Ruganda...
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