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Okot p'Bitek

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Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 20 July 1982) 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. [1]

39 relations: Aberystwyth University, Acholi dialect, Acholi people, Bachelor of Letters, British Columbia, Commonwealth Foundation prizes, English-speaking world, George Padmore Institute, Gerald Moore (scholar), Gulu, Gulu District, Idi Amin, International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books, Juliane Okot Bitek, Kampala, King's College Budo, Kisumu, Lango people, Luo languages, Makerere University, Molara Ogundipe, Monologue, Nigeria, Northern Region, Uganda, Obafemi Awolowo University, Social anthropology, Song of Lawino, Taban Lo Liyong, Uganda, Uganda Protectorate, University of Bristol, University of Iowa, University of Nairobi, University of Oxford, University of Texas at Austin, Vancouver, Verse drama and dramatic verse, Western Nilotic languages, Westernization.

Aberystwyth University

Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales.

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Acholi dialect

Acholi (also Acoli, Akoli, Acooli, Atscholi, Shuli, Gang, Lwoo, Lwo, Lok Acoli, Dok Acoli) is a Southern Luo dialect spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader (a region known as Acholiland) in northern Uganda.

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Acholi people

Acholi (also Acoli) is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from the eastern Part of South Sudan Magwi County and Northern Uganda (an area commonly referred to as Acholiland), including the districts of Agago, Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum, Nwoya, Lamwo, and Pader.

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Bachelor of Letters

Bachelor of Letters (B.Litt. or Litt.B.; Latin Baccalaureus Litterarum or Litterarum Baccalaureus) is a second undergraduate university degree in which students specialize in an area of study relevant to their own personal, professional or academic development.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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English-speaking world

Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language.

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George Padmore Institute

The George Padmore Institute (GPI), founded in 1991 in Stroud Green Road, North London, by John La Rose (1927–2006) and a group of political and cultural activists connected to New Beacon Books,, LKJ Records, 17 December 2008.

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Gerald Moore (scholar)

Gerald Moore (born 1924) is an independent scholar living in Worthing, England.

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Gulu

Gulu is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Gulu District

Gulu District is a district in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada (2816 August 2003) was a Ugandan politician and military officer.

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International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books

The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books, often referred to as The Black Book Fair, was inaugurated in London, England, in April 1982 and continued until 1995, bringing together a number of Black publishers, intellectuals and educationalists.

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Juliane Okot Bitek

Juliane Okot Bitek is a Kenyan-born Ugandan diasporian, who lives, studies and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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King's College Budo

King’s College Budo is a mixed, residential, secondary school in Central Uganda.

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Kisumu

Kisumu, officially known as Kisumu City (and formerly Port Florence), is the Kenyan inland port city on Lake Victoria and the capital city of Kisumu County, Kenya.

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Lango people

The Lango people are Nilotic ethnic group of northern Uganda.

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Luo languages

The dozen Luo, Lwo or Lwoian languages are spoken by the Luo peoples in an area ranging from southern Sudan to southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Makerere University

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Molara Ogundipe

Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie (born 1940), also known as Molara Ogundipe, is a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Northern Region, Uganda

The Northern region is one of four regions in the country of Uganda.

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Obafemi Awolowo University

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a federal government owned and operated Nigerian university.

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Social anthropology

Social anthropology or anthroposociology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe (France in particular), where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology.

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Song of Lawino

Song of Lawino is an epic poem written by Ugandan poet Okot p'Bitek.

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Taban Lo Liyong

Taban Lo Liyong (born 1939) is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Uganda Protectorate

The British Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962.

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University of Bristol

The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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University of Nairobi

The University of Nairobi (UoN) is a collegiate research university based in Nairobi.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Verse drama and dramatic verse

Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama.

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Western Nilotic languages

The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages; Themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan.

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Westernization

Westernization (US) or Westernisation (UK), also Europeanization/Europeanisation or occidentalization/occidentalisation (from the Occident, meaning the Western world; see "occident" in the dictionary), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt Western culture in areas such as industry, technology, law, politics, economics, lifestyle, diet, clothing, language, alphabet, religion, philosophy, and values.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek

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