AFRICAN LUO - LANGO TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION 101

Include The Suggested Readings Below:

(Note: No Text is Compulsorily Required for This language Training Course)

 

Handbook To Print Out From On - line:

Self Guide To African - Luo Language Learning and Translation 101 

Course Handout For Course Code: LTP - LUO - 101 / 102 /103.     

       Web Ref: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/uganda;

The Last Word by Lo T. Lijong (1969);'Introduction' to Song of Prisoner by E. Blishen (1971);A Reader's Guide to African Literature, ed. by Hans M. Zell and Helene Silver (1972);Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1972); The Poetry of Okot p'Bitek by George A. Heron (1976);Uhuru's Fire: African Literature East to South by Adrian Roscoe (1977); 'Okot p'Bitek: Literature and Cultural Revolution' by S.O. Asein, in Journal of African Studies 5.3 (1978); Twelve African Writers by G. Moore (1980); Thought and Technique in the Poetry of Okot p'Bitek by Monica Nalyaka Wanambisi (1984); 'Okot p'Bitek: A Checklist of Worls and Criticism' by Ogo A. Ofuani, in Review of African Literatures 16.3 (1985);New Poetry from Africa: A Poetry Course for Senior Secondary Schools, ed. by R. Johnson, D. Ker, C. Maduka, O. Obafemi (1996);Postcolonial African Writers, ed. by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne (1998);The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, ed. by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier (1998); Oral Traditions As Philosophy: Okot P'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy by Samuel Oluoch Imbo (2002);

Luo - Acholi Proverbs:

Title	Acholi Proverbs.
Type	Others
Author	P'Bitek, Okot
Year of Publication	1985
Variety	Luo
Info	Nairobi: Heinemann. Pp. ix, 38.

Further information is available on Luo African writers as  Okot P'Bitek (1931-1982)

Along With Numerous Other Titles From His “Selected works”:

• Lak Tar Miyo Kinyero Wi Lobo, 1953 - White Teeth
• Song of Lawino: A Lament, 1966 (originally: Wer pa Lawino)
• Wer pa Lawino, 1969 - The Defence of Lawino (trans. by Lo Liyong)
• Song of Ocol, 1970
• Religion of the Central Luo , 1971
• Two Songs (Song of Prisoner, Song of Malaya ), 1971
• African Religions in Western Scholarship, 1972
• Africa 's Cultural Revolution, 1973
• Horn of My Love, 1974
• Hare and Hornbill, 1978
• Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol, 1984 (reprint edition).
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• ADDITIONAL AFRICAN LUO - LANGO TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION 101 TRAINING
• RESOURCES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING BOOK REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS (CONTINUED):

• Luo-English Dictionary; with notes on Luo Grammar.

  Title	Luo-English Dictionary; with notes on Luo Grammar.
  Type	Dictionaries
  Author	Blount, Ben G., and Elise J. Padgug
  Year of Publication	1974
  Variety	Luo
  Info	Nairobi: Institute of African Studies. Pp. 169.

• Lango Syntax.

  Title	Lango Syntax.
  Type	Descriptions
  Author	Noonan, M.
  Year of Publication	n.d.
  Variety	Luo
  Info	(Manuscript

        

        A Grammar of Lango by Michael Noonan

        Author(s) of Review: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
         Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,

        University of London, Vol. 57, No. 3 (1994),

        pp. 642-644. This article consists of 3 pages.

       The Lango,

• a Nilotic Tribe of Uganda Central Sub Region.

  Title	The Lango, a Nilotic Tribe of Uganda.
  Type	Others
  Author	Driberg, Jack Herbert
  Year of Publication	1923
  Variety	Luo
  Info	London: T.F. Unwin. Pp. 468. (Includes a lexicon.)

       Okello Oculi: Orphan (1968), a dramatic,

        symbolic tale in lively free verse about

        modern urbanized Africa;

        Okello Oculi: Prostitute (1968), a novel dealing

        with the plight of the uprooted who have

        left home for the lure of the city.

• Okello Oculi: Kanti Riti (1974),
• Okello Oculi: Malak (1977),
• Okello Oculi: Kookolem (1978).
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  About The Luo -  Lango writer, Okello Oculi,
• Born 1942, Dokolo county, Lango district, Northern Uganda Ugandan novelist, poet, and chronicler of African rural village life. His writing is filled with authentic snatches of conversation, proverbs, and folk wisdom
• that confirm African values and denounce European imitations.
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  Oculi was educated locally at Soroti College and at St. Peter's College in Tororo, St. Mary's College in Kisubi, and Makerere University in Kampala , where he edited the university journal, The Makererean. He also studied abroad at Stanford University in California and at the University of Essex in England .

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