Definitions
Behaviors, values, and beliefs that a group of people accept to form their way of life, generally passed along through imitation and communication.
What is culture?
The woman Lawino shares her husband with.
Who is Clementine?
The 3 types of language influences that make up Africa's linguistic heritage.
What are Indigenous, Islamic, and Western contributions?
What sport did Okot play in his youth?
Football (soccer)
The protector of Wakanda and a great role-model for young black youth.
Who is Black Panther?
The composition of a person; what makes a person who they are.
The language spoke by the Acholi people.
What is Luo (Lwo)?
Most Africans regard these values to be more superior than their own.
What are Western values?
Which two festivals did Okot P'Bitek found?
The Gulu Arts Festival and Kisumu Arts Festival.
A former president and the author of "Dreams from My Father". This person struggled with growing up in Hawaii as a black youth with white and African ancestors.
Who is Barack Obama?
A structure or mechanism of social order that govern how individuals act within a community.
What is an institution?
A courtship dance performed by the Acholi tribe that gave the young men an opportunity to secure a marriage partner. It is done completely naked and at a very high pace.
What is the Larakaraka?
Hard work, good character, hospitality, respect for old age, and chastity before marriage.
What are African values?
Okot's first body of work, "Lak Tar Miyo Kinyero Wi Lobo". Translated from the language Luo into English.
What is "White Teeth"?
A young black girl who was born to white parents and had to fight the government to be considered white during South African Apartheid.
Who is Sandra Laing?
The state of belonging to a social group that has common cultural traditions.
What is ethnicity?
Why does Ocol hate his brother?
Because his brother is a part of the opposing political party.
The struggle between following long-established customs of a culture or deciding to adopt contemporary ways of life. This has been a conflict within African countries over the past decade.
What is traditionalism V. modernization?
Which 4 universities did P'Bitek study at
Oxford, Wales, Bristol, & Aberystwyth.
The young girl from Uganda who led the country's chess team to the Chess Olympiad in Russia.
Who is Phiona Mutesi?
The biological make-up of a person that gives them specific physical traits that categorizes them into groups.
What is race?
How do the woman of the Acholi tribe wear their hair?
Very naturally short. Sometimes almost bald.
The process that took place from 1880-1920 where European countries settled in Africa and took control over the indigenous people.
What is colonization?
The religion Okot thought to be not as stable due to the deterioration of human morality
What is Christianity?
An accomplished poet, author, singer, and civil rights activist during the 1960's. She wrote the memoir "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" and worked with leaders such as Malcolm X.
Who is Maya Angelou?