Tag: Okot p’Bitek

  • Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation launched

    Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation launched

    The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation for emerging African poets was recently announced. The one-off award will be administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) will celebrate fifty years since the publication of Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino. Okot P’Bitek was a legendary poet from Uganda who became immediately immortal when his…

  • Babishai Niwe to celebrate Song of Lawino@50

    Babishai Niwe to celebrate Song of Lawino@50

    Song of Lawino is an epic poem written by Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek published in 1966 in Luo and translated into many other languages, including English. In the poem Lawino’s husband, Ocol, the son of the tribal leader of their Acoli tribe, has taken another wife, Clementine, who is educated and acts European. Although Ocol’s…