num_pages: 151
description: Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol are among the most successful African literary works. Song of Lawino is an African woman's lamentation over the cultural death of her western educated husband - Ocol. In Song of Ocol the husband tries to justify his cultural apostasy. The first was translated from Acholi by the author while the second was written in English.
language: English
title: Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
titlecomplete: Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Uganda, Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Cultural, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 714
places: Uganda
publisher: Heinemann