Okot p'Bitek

Okot p'Bitek was born on 7 June 1931 in Gulu, the son of a schoolteacher and a traditional singer, storyteller and dancer. A pupil at King's College, Budo, where he composed an opera, he played in the national football team, and studied education in Bristol, law in Aberystwyth and social anthropology in Oxford. He taught at Makerere and directed the National Theatre and the National Cultural Centre from 1966 to 1968, then worked at the University of Nairobi from 1971. Back at Makerere, he died in Kampala on 20 July 1982.

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• PoetrySong of Lawino: A LamentOkot p'Bitek · 1966Literature