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Okot P'bitek's 1953 Debut Novel Still Relevant Half a Century Later.
Byline: Brian Bwesigye
At the age of 22, Okot p'Bitek wrote his first major work that turned out to be the only novel he wrote. The novel was first published in 1953 by the East African Literature Bureau, Eagle Press, and written in Acholi language under the title Lak Tar Miyo Kinyero Wilobo (White Teeth make us laugh on earth) shortened as Lak Tar (White Teeth).
Okot, who died in July 1982, is arguably Uganda's lone export to the international literary scene, with an African epic poetry style named after him as the Okot song school of poetry. One of his poems, Song of Lawino has been recognised as one of the top 100 African books of the twentieth century. But Okot' …
