LIT/A/1: THE GRACEFUL GIRRAFE CANNOT BECOME A MONKEY Okot P B’TEK (Uganda)

This is a short extract from a long poem called “song of Lawino” which is almost entirely based on the conflict between old and new ways of life. So it is based on what Lawino thinks as a treasure for Africans as contrasted from what Ocol thinks on his side. (Although their names do not appear anywhere throughout the poem).