Download or read book Song of Lawino Song of Ocol written by Okot p'Bitek and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, Okot pBitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work, including this pair of poems, originally written in Acholi and translated into English. Lawinos wordsin the first poemare not fancy, but their creative patterns convey compelling images that reveal her dismay over encroaching Western traditions and her Westernized husbands behavior. Ocols poem underlines Lawinos points and confirms her view of him as a demeaning and arrogant person whose political energies and obsession with wasting time are destructive to his family and his community. The gripping poems of Lawino and Ocol capture two opposing approaches to the cultural future of Africa at the time and paint a picture that belongs in every modern readers cognitive gallery.

Download or read book Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol written by Okot pBitek and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African womans 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.

Download or read book The Aesthetic Discourse of the Arts written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fine arts first emerged divided by the five senses yet, since their very origin, they have projected aesthetic networks among themselves. Music, song, painting, architecture, sculpture, theatre, dance -- distinct in themselves -- grew together, enhancing each other. In the present outburst of technical ingeniosity, individual arts cross all barriers, as well as proliferate in kind. Hence the traditional criteria of appreciation and enjoyment vanish. The enlarged and ever-growing field calls for new principles of appreciation and new values, essential to our culture. This collection initiates an inquiry into the aesthetic foundations of the fine arts. Their common aesthetic nature, as well as the differentiating specificities which sustain them, might reveal the universal role of aesthetics in human life.

Download or read book Song of a Prisoner written by Okot p'Bitek and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. The 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 face of hunger, hardship and humiliation.

Download or read book Lak tar written by Okot p'Bitek and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Horn of My Love written by Okot p'Bitek and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wer pa Lawino written by Okot p'Bitek and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book White Teeth written by Okot p'Bitek and published by East African Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Defence of Lawino written by Okot p'Bitek and published by Fountain Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book As the Crow Flies written by Véronique Tadjo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.

Download or read book Song of Lawino written by Okot p'Bitek and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 100 Days written by Juliane Okot Bitek and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that recall the senseless loss of life and of innocence in Rwanda.

Download or read book Gabriel Okara written by Gabriel Okara and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.

Download or read book Song of Lawino written by Okot p Bitek and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro

Download or read book A Nation in Labour written by Harriet Anena and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nation In Labour is a collection of social conscience poetry that paints a picture of the giant politician, the restless citizen, the clueless youth, those struggling to heal from life's scratches and the ones hunting for words to describe fiery flames of affection.

Download or read book Oral Traditions as Philosophy written by Samuel Oluoch Imbo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Ugandan poet and cultural critic Okot p'Bitek. In his poems and critical essays, Okot engages with the oral traditions of his people--the songs, dances, funeral dirges, and so forth--seeing them as manifestations of the people's philosophy of life. Imbo's book aims to make explicit the philosophical questions raised in Okot's work, placing them within the wider picture of contemporary African philosophy as a whole. Visit our website for sample chapters!