• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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. Acholi...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Opperman, South Africa Niyi Osundare, Nigeria Romeo Oriogun, Nigeria Okot p'Bitek, Uganda Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Ghana Shailja Patel, Kenya Lenrie Peters...
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