Conclusion
Okot P'Bitek presents the traditional woman as an uneducated
woman. He uses her like a tool to remind African people to protect their
culture and not to forget their africaness. He wants African people to
buildnations and to take care of the future of Africa.
Okot throughout fawino does not accept the western people to
impose their culture to africanpeople. Although colonizers denied Africa the
right to cultural development and self expression, Africa has its own identity
and its own civilisation.
Okot throughout the woman he portrays shows his attitude
towards negative behaviours of social, educational and religious aspects.
These colonial aspects above developed in the chapter three
are the major elements to support my thesis statement. These elements help us
to enter into Okot nP'Bitek's mind and share with him the evidence that there
is no better culture than another. However, people should sort out the positive
elements for the development of their own culture.
GENERAL CONCLUSION
To sum up, Okotp' Bitek's idea, we consider Song of
Lawino and Song of Ocool as poems of attack against western
influences. The poem on the whole is an appeal for African people to be the
defenders of African culture, not to be unprooted.
Through out this poem Okot' p Bitek involves the real social
problems very common in rural areas of East Africa. Furthermore, the poem is an
appeal for renewal of traditional ways. It captures the confrontation of Africa
and Europe with eloquent force.
Okot wants African people not to embrace western values and
modes of life, but to remove blindness which they got during the pre colonia
and the colonial periods.
Taking into account all that we hve developed in the
preceeding chapters of the present work, Song of Lawino and Song
of Ocol is a concern of a long debate between two characters. The so
called debate is about moral norms and assumptions between satirist and
audience. Through the song of Lawino, P' Bitek comments on the neo-colonial
mentality of African bourgeoisie and politica leaders of Africa.
To make himself understood, P'Bitek uses a black female
speaker whose pride in the traditional Acoli way of life inspises her to
criticize a husband who has become the fruit of colonial attitudes. Okot' p
Bitek through Zawine shows his own attitude towards black feminine difference
in song of Lawino.
Lawino in her behavior praises African traditional ways,
while Acom a white man indsults Lawino, his wife. Lawino now laments because of
Acol's insuts, his attitude towards his ancestor's customs. Thus, the
conflict begins between them.
To restore peace between Lawino, the defender of Africa
tradition and Acol whose behavior's like a white man, the latter recognizes his
identity and asks forgiveness, finally the reconciliation between the two
characters.
What we find consistant is that Song of Lawino and
Song of Ocol is written in Acoli and latter on translated in English,
the two languages that the author masters very well. If we take into account
the fact that Acol communicates more effectively in that Acoli language, his
achievement becomes more significant and that language helps him to defend the
African culture.
Brief, Song of Lawino and song of Acol a
text of colonial period is an appeal to the highly educated while being
intelligible to the common man and woman in the street.
Finally, it is a text that spreaks out against the prejudice
that African tribes received during colonial period.
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