I may not fully understand the ways of foreigners, but I do… - p’Bitek Okot

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I may not fully understand the ways of foreigners, but I do not despise their customs.

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Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 19 July 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised.

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