You kiss her on the cheek, as white people do. You kiss her… - p’Bitek Okot

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You kiss her on the cheek, as white people do. You kiss her lips, even if they have open sores, as white people do. You exchange slimy saliva from each other's mouths, just like white people do.

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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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I am proud of the hair with which I was born and as no white woman wishes to do her hair like mine, because she is proud of the hair with which she was born.

I confess, I do not deny! I do not know how to cook like a white woman.

Perhaps she has aborted many children, or maybe she has even thrown her twins into the pit latrine!

You kiss her on the cheek, as white people do. You kiss her lips, even if they have open sores, as white people do. You exchange slimy saliva from ea… - p’Bitek Okot

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