Okello Oculi
Okello Oculi (* 1942 in the Dokolo district of the Lango province in northern Uganda ) is a Ugandan writer. Oculi documents rural life in Africa in his works, using authentic conversation content, proverbs and folk wisdom. In his works he advocates African values and condemns the imitation of Europe.
Okello Oculi studied from 1963 to 1967 at Makerere University in Kampala ( BA ), where he also published the magazine The Makererean . He was an exchange student at Stanford University in 1964/65 . At the University of Essex in England (1967/68) he obtained the title Master of Arts with A Theory of Secession . There he also wrote the novel Prostitute (1968), in which he describes the situation of the uprooted rural dwellers who followed the lure of the city. Also in 1968 he published Orphan , a dramatic tale in free verse about modern, urban Africa. From 1972 to 1977 he studied at the University of Wisconsin ( Ph. D. in Political Science).
From 1977 to 1990 he taught political science at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria , Nigeria .
Works
- Kanti Riti (1974)
- Malak (1977)
- Kookolem (1978)
- Discourses on African Affairs: Directions and Destinies for the 21st Century , Africa World Press (Dec. 1999)
- Song for the Sun in Us (Poets of Africa), together with Janet Stuart, East African Educational Publishers Ltd, Kenya (January 2006)
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| SURNAME | Oculi, Okello |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ugandan writer and political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |