Renowned writer and poet Taban lo Liyong is currently professor of Literature at Juba University, South Sudan. I first met him in October 1972, at the National Theatre in Nairobi. I was with the Makerere Free Travelling Theatre. Taban lo Liyong, who had already made a name as a writer through books like The Last Word and Eating Chiefs and poems such as The Marriage of Black and White and Songs from the Congolese, offered the troupe of 14 a lunch treat. So when I was told last month that he was in Kampala, I knew that I could now ‘revenge’ with an interview, writes Emmanuel Mukanga.
How far has African literature developed since Okot p'Biteks's Song of Lawino?
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