Both a literary study and poetry, the author provides his interpretation of the poetry of the Acoli of northern Uganda, a people of the African countryside.

The Horn of My Love (English and Acoli Edition)

pʼ Bitek, Okot

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann

Hare and Hornbill

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

One of the most successful African literary works, Song of Lawino (1966), is now made available in the African Writers Series together with Song of Ocol (1967).

Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)

Poetry

African Religions in European Scholarship

African Religions in European Scholarship

Religion & Spirituality

Eca Assoc

For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per se, but what was worse, African scholars began not to study indigenous African spirituality on its own terms but through European eyes and intellectual categories. Okot p'Bitek, who is best known for Song of Lawino, was one of the first African scholars to call attention to this situation and argue African scholars need not "Hellenize" African spiritual practices and ideas and that what we have come to think as "African religions" are European versions in African disguise. This publication, along with a new introduction by Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu, reintroduces a classic work to a new generation, especially for those with an interest in African spiritual cultures and in need of "decolonizing" them so that they be studied, appreciated, and engaged on their own cultural and historic terms.

Decolonizing African Religion: A Short History of African Religions in Western Scholarship

History

Africa

Diasporic Africa Press

This book presents important works about the Acholi in Uganda from Frank Knowles Girling’s The Acholi of Uganda and Okot p’Bitek’s The Religion of the Central Lwo, African Religions in Western Scholarship, and Acholi Love in one volume. Girling was writing about the Acholi at the time Okot was a teenager. They were also both introduced to anthropology in England by some of the same people, and they were both outsiders. Girling was a Marxist and a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He was thrown out of Uganda when he invited Indian independence activists to visit him. He was subsequently refused access to the UK anthropology establishment and became a sociologist, studying the working class in Glasgow. Okot was one of the most important of all African poets. His approach to anthropology is polemical and engaging.

The Lawino's People: The Acholi of Uganda (Classics in African Anthropology)

Girling, Frank Knowles

LIT Verlag

First published in Acoli as Lak Tar, this novel from the late Ugandan author of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and other major works, is the story of society on the threshold of change. A young Acoli man wishes to marry but cannot raise the bridewealth. He travels to Kampala to find work, and the author humorously relates his efforts.

White Teeth

Contemporary

East African Educational Publishers

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African woman's lamentation over the cultural death of her western educated husband - Ocol. In Song of Ocel the husband tries to justify his cultural apostasy. These songs were translated from Acholi by the author. They evince a fascinating flavour of the African rhythmical idiom.

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol

A new translation of the late Okot p'Bitek's classic epic poem 'Wer pa Lawino', first published in Acholi in 1969, and recently listed in Africa's 100 Best Books. Lawino is a female voice, taking issue with her husband whom she witnesses imitating a European culture which is destroying a more deeply rooted African culture.

The Defence of Lawino

Fountain Books

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The Horn of My Love (English and Acoli Edition)

Hare and Hornbill

Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)

African Religions in European Scholarship

Decolonizing African Religion: A Short History of African Religions in Western Scholarship

The Lawino's People: The Acholi of Uganda (Classics in African Anthropology)

White Teeth

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol

The Defence of Lawino