Taban Lo Liyong

Taban lo Liyong was born in 1938 in Kajo Kaji, in Acholi country, in southern Sudan, and was taken as a young child to Uganda, where he studied up to the teacher training college of Kyambogo. A graduate of Howard University, he was in 1968 the first African to graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He then taught in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Port Moresby, Juba and South Africa. A poet, short story writer and essayist, he has published more than twenty books, in which provocation is mixed with play.

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• EssayThe Last WordTaban Lo Liyong · 1969Literature