We must save oral literature from extinction

The ways of our ancestors are good/Their customs are solid/And not hollow/They are not thin, not easily breakable

Perhaps Ugandan legendary poet Okot p’ Bitek while scribbling the above words in his timeless classic, Song of Lawino, knew not that one day a generation seemingly disinterested in the immense richness of oral literature would come, claiming change in cultural appreciation thanks  to movies, music and Internet.