LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Okot p'Bitek

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  • Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
    Okot p'Bitek / Okot p’Bitek
    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 rhythmica...
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    23,36 €

  • Decolonizing African Religion
    Okot p'Bitek / Okot P’Bitek
    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 fi...
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    19,21 €

  • Two Songs
    Okot p'Bitek / Okot p’Bitek / Taban Lo Liyong
    Poet, philosopher and artist, these poems from the distinguished Ugandan writer won the 1972 Kenyatta Prize for Literature. Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa’s decade of freedom. He traverses the whole spectrum of her political sickness and contrasts it with the enduring reality of the bush - roots of family and clan, and the optimism of Africa’s children in the ...
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    44,44 €

  • The Defence of Lawino
    Okot p'Bitek / Okot p’Bitek
    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. ...
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    32,72 €