Selected Poetry of Okot p'Bitek
Song of Lawino
did the songs and traditional dances reveal the symbolic term;the pumkin of the old homestead?
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The phrase appears to symbolize values.... respect for family and tradition. Lawino defends these values, and in context, is asking Ocol "not to destroy things for the sake of destroying them.” (Introduction, Lawino and Ocol, p. 7)
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