A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Songs from the grasslands", The Times Literary Supplement, 21 Feb 1975, p. 204 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200403999/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=0f8f4078. Accessed

Gerald Moore praises Okot p'Bitek's collection of Acoli traditional songs. He suggests that the songs and poems collected here have merit on their own accord, rather than to be used as only ethnographic material "to be eviscerated." Of Okot p'Bitek himself, Moore writes, "Those familiar with his own poetry, especially The Song of Lawino, will recognize here the indigenous poetic tradition in which that fine work is embedded. The bitters of Lawino's sense of betrayal is not a personal but a cultural bitterness."