Song of lawino; song of ocol

Song of Lawino, one of the most successful African literary works, is now made available in the African Writers Series together with Song of Ocol, the husband’s reply to Lawino’s claim. As Okot himself wrote, these songs are translated from the Acoli by the author who has thus clipped a bit of the eagle’s wings and rendered the sharp edges of the warrior’s sword rusty and blunt, and has also murdered rhythm and rhyme.