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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
P'Bitek, Okot
Biography
Uganda
Birth date: 1931-06-07
Birth location:
Gulu,
Uganda
Death date: 1982-07-20
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet known for his long-form poem "Song of Lawino," published in 1966 and originally written in the Acholi dialect of Southern Luo before being translated into English. p'Bitek left Uganda to teach at the University of Iowa in 1969 and remained in exile until 1982.
Education
- University of Bristol
- Oxford University
News Items (27)
- The allusive traditions of Africa (1971-04-23) | Poet
- Scorning the sonnet (1983-09-16) | Poet
- A South African Poet (2002-06-20) | Poet
- Songs from the grasslands (1975-02-21) | Poet
- In search of a subject (2003-02-07) | Poet
- Specialist issues (1987-11-20) | Poet
- In Brief (2002-12-13) | Poet
- A World of Riches (1975-04-13) | Poet
- One man's map (1984-05-11) | Poet
- Radio (2002-08-25) | Poet
- Heinemann Educational Books (1978-10-13) | Poet
- Change from below (1992-03-27) | Poet
- Reclaiming the mother tongue (1987-05-08) | Poet
- Unfettered, Unfree (1967-02-16) | Poet
- What's good for the Luo (1977-02-18) | Poet
- Akamba, Yoruba, Swahili (1967-03-23) | Poet
- Black man's burden (1981-11-06) | Poet
- From recent issues (1978-06-16) | Poet
- In the Arms of the Prison (1971-11-05) | Poet
- Mr Okot p'bitek (1982-07-23) | Poet
- Literature (1977-01-18) | Poet
- Radio (2002-08-25) | Poet
- Compensations in culture (1968-10-09) | Mentioned Poet
- Scorning the sonnet (1983-09-16) | Mentioned Poet
- Literature (1977-01-18) | Mentioned Poet
- Mr Okot p'bitek (1982-07-23) | Mentioned Poet
- Out of Africa, into nowhere (1989-10-21) | Mentioned Poet
Events (3)
Related Works (30)
- Oral Literature in Africa (1970) (Mentioned Poet)
- Oral Literature in Africa (1970) (Work Author)
- Understanding African Poetry: A study of Ten Poets (1982) (Poet)
- The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (1990) (Poet)
- The Horn of my Love (1974) (Poet)
- The Horn of my Love (1974) (Work Author)
- Africa Talks Back: Interviews with Anglophone African authors (2002) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Ordeal of the African Writer (2001) (Mentioned Poet)
- Thought and Technique in the Poetry of Okot p'Bitek (1984) (Mentioned Poet)
- Thought and Technique in the Poetry of Okot p'Bitek (1984) (Work Author)
- The Song Atlas: A book of world poetry (2003) (Poet)
- Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975) (Poet)
- More Modern African Stories (1975) (Poet)
- Poems of Black Africa (1975) (Poet)
- A Guide to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (1983) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Hare and the Hornbill (1978) (Poet)
- Mhudi (1978) (Poet)
- The Fisherman's Invocation: Poems (1978) (Poet)
- The House of Hunger (1978) (Poet)
- Song of Lawino: A Lament (1966) (Poet)
- Song of Lawino: A Lament (1966) (Poet)
- Song of Lawino: A Lament (1966) (Poet)
- Okike: An African Journal of New Writing (1978) (Poet)
- Song of Prisoner, Song of Malaya (1971) (Poet)
- Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (1984) (Poet)
- Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (1984) (Work Author)
- Two Songs (1971) (Poet)
- Two Songs (1971) (Work Author)
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