I salute remarkable achievements of black actors, they make us all proud

By Anyang’ Nyong’o
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I have always wondered why Okot p’Bitek’s epic poem, Song of Lawino, had such a great impact on me as a literature student at Makerere University in the late sixties. Indeed I ended up publishing a poem, “the daughter of lowland,” as a reaction to Okot’s debasing of Ocol as an educated neocolonised Acoli man who had lost his manhood to western civilisation.