Song of Ocol
The husband answers, and his contempt is comprehensive — for his wife, for the village, for the whole apparatus of custom his education was spent escaping. He demands that someone name a single thing Africa has built, and reveals in the asking how little of himself the question has left standing. p'Bitek gives the Westernised man the reply he had been denied, and lets him make the case against himself.
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- responds to ↑ Song of Lawino
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