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Wikipedia Overview
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised. Song of Lawino was originally written in the Acholi dialect of Southern Luo, translated by the author into English, and published in 1966. It was a breakthrough work, creating an audience among anglophone Africans for direct, topical poetry in English; and incorporating traditional attitudes and thinking in an accessible yet faithful literary vehicle. It was followed by the Song of Ocol (1970), the husband's reply.
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Song of Lawino at 60: Okot p'Bitek's enduring legacy in African poetry - Daily Monitor
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Jane Okot p’Bitek Langoya releases excellent poetry book - Pulse Uganda
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The rage of Okot p’Bitek: colonial perspectives and a failed Oxford doctorate - The London School of Economics and Political Science
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The Empire Strikes Back at Lawino: How Oxford Failed Okot p’Bitek - theelephant.info
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Song of Clementine: Feminist Agency in the Fictional Past, Cultural Present, and Future - Independent Curators International (ICI)
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Ugandan poet Juliane Okot P’ Bitek awarded 2017 Glenna Luschei Literary Prize - Face2Face Africa
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Education: Gulu school wins Okot P’Bitek Student’ literary f - NewVision.co.ug
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Jane p’Bitek: Filling my dad’s shoes is an impossible task - Daily Nation
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The Empire Strikes Back at Lawino: The Heresy of Okot - theelephant.info
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Book Review: The Religion of the Central Luo by Okot p’Bitek - The London School of Economics and Political Science
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“A Masterpiece”: Diriye Osman Weighs Juliane Okot Bitek’s Poetry Collection “100 Days” - Brittle Paper
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John Mbiti, 87, Dies; Punctured Myths About African Religions (Published 2019) - The New York Times
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Reading John Mbiti from Uganda - Africa Is a Country
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Okot p’Bitek’s literary candle burns on - Daily Monitor
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27 years after his death, Okot’s poetry as relevant as ever - Daily Nation
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‘I will not be just average’ – How football took Aloh Francis from Uganda’s warzone to Vietnam and back - The London School of Economics and Political Science
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OBY OBYERODHYAMBO - Poetry Is Dying and Poets Are an Endangered Species - theelephant.info
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How Okot p’Bitek became Uganda’s most radical poet - Daily Monitor
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Okot p’Bitek on Trial, with a Taban lo Liyong link in Kisumu - Daily Nation
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BOOKS THEY READ: I would love to own a copy of all my father's works- J. Bitek - Daily Monitor
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Of the Biteks, apples that don’t fall far from the tree - Daily Monitor
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Juliane Okot Bitek: In her father’s footsteps - The EastAfrican
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Okot p’Bitek’s 1953 debut novel still relevant half a century later - Daily Monitor
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What p’Bitek might have thought of Uganda today… - Daily Monitor
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Lessons from Okot p’Bitek’s ‘Lawino,’ 1966 and all that - Daily Nation
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Education: Acholi songs, Okot p'Bitek's poetry win PhD at Gu - NewVision.co.ug
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People: Okot P’ Bitek lives on - NewVision.co.ug
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Okot P’Bitek remembered in Echoes of Lawino - Uganda Observer
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KCSE English Paper 2 2025 .Sample of Oral Poem.Okot P. Bitek.When the beauty on my Beloved's Face. - YouTube
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Okot p’Bitek sang songs from the source - The EastAfrican
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Locating the Ugandan artist in poet Okot P’Bitek’s essays - Daily Monitor
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Board members urged to embrace artificial intelligence - Daily Monitor
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Okot p’ Bitek’s response to Song of Lawino
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Ghanaian Poetry in limelight as Gabriel Awuah Mainoo of UCC treks onto World Literary Map. - Modern Ghana
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Segun Adefila brings ‘The Divorce of Ochol and Lawino’ to Lagos stage this August - The Lagos Review
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‘Song of Lawino’ still controversial half-a-century on - Daily Nation
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The 10 Best African Poems of All Time - OkayAfrica
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Growing up with Mjomba Ali Mazrui - The EastAfrican
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Anthology tackles Uganda’s social issues head on - The EastAfrican
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Inter-sections of conflict between African tradition and modernity in Divorce of Lawino - The Guardian Nigeria News
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Fifty years of Song of Lawino - Daily Monitor
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My up and close encounters with Uganda’s literary greats - Daily Nation
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A Poetic Duet unleashes two women’s powers - Uganda Observer
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Book Review : The Two Lawinos
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Bravo Acholi leaders on lowering bride price - Daily Monitor
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Makerere Pays Tribute to Fallen Poet, Okot p’Bitek - ChimpReports
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Telling the story of a nation through books - Daily Monitor
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Lack of records limiting SMEs’ access to credit - Daily Monitor
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URSB Seeks UGX 57bn for Staff Recruitment, Regional Offices - Uganda Radionetwork
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Jane Okot P’ Bitek Langoya Archives - PML Daily
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11th annual Directors and Company Secretaries conference set for May 3 - PML Daily
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Kisumu’s Mama Grace Onyango refurbished social centre unveiled - Education News
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