Lateral texts and circuits of value: Okot p’Bitek’s <i>Song of Lawino</i> and <i>Wer pa Lawino</i>

Garuba, Harry; Okot, Benge

doi:10.1080/02533952.2017.1372054

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“…Harry Garuba and Benge Okot, writing on the practice of publishing literary texts that appear in more than one language, point out that the conceptual distinction between an “original” and a “translation” encourages us to think in vertical and hierarchical terms. They argue for a different conceptual approach: working within a conceptual field that thinks about difference in terms of lateral or horizontal relationships ( 29 ). This, they argue, allows works in different vernaculars to be located in relation to the particular but related “circuits of value” in which they accrue their meanings.…”

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“…This, they argue, allows works in different vernaculars to be located in relation to the particular but related “circuits of value” in which they accrue their meanings. Or in their own words, “Working with a conception of lateral textuality also allows us to uncouple the texts and to examine how each one is inserted into its particular literary tradition and the manner in which it partakes in its specific circuit of value” ( 29 ).…”

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“A passion to change the landscape and drive a renaissance”: The mRNA Hub at Afrigen as decolonial aspiration

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2022

Front. Public Health

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In global conversations about COVID-19 vaccine access, Africa has overwhelmingly been characterized as a site of lack. However, the successful reverse engineering of the Moderna vaccine by Afrigen at the mRNA Hub in Cape Town marks a more hopeful path forward. This paper introduces the mRNA Hub and puts it into context of broader decolonial aspirations for African futures in the face of rich countries' disregard. Highlighting ways in which Afrigen's Managing Director's articulations of the endeavor resonate with historical and contemporary calls to dismantle the unequal global order, we argue that the mRNA Hub provides an example of the potential for decolonial solidarity in the post/pandemic period.

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“… 2. There is a related argument raised by Harry Garuba and Benge Okot, that Song of Lawino is in fact a “lateral” text. This is to say, it is not a translation of the Acholi Wer pa Lawino , as is often thought, but was written separately to enter a particular (English) circuit of value, different from the Acholi one (Garuba and Okot, 2017: 315). …”

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African poetry and the intellectual: A critique of the academy in verse

Lipenga

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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In The Wretched of the Earth (1963), Frantz Fanon holds an optimistic view of the intellectual in the colony, as one who plays a key role in confronting the colonial administrators and addressing them on level intellectual turf. Long after African countries have gained independence, university campuses continue to sprout and grow on the continent. The intellectual finds their position changed. Now, intellectuals are under scrutiny more than ever, pressed to illustrate their relevance to the continent, to indicate how their expertise is not limited to the professing of theory in university corridors. The discourse has been ongoing in various disciplines. This essay examines the area of poetry, arguing that this domain illustrates the continent’s disillusionment with the place of the African intellectual in relation to their immediate world and indigenous knowledge production within it. In poetry, we find insightful critiques of as well as recommendations for the role of the African intellectual. Through an exploration of several poems that touch on the academy and the intellectual, the essay illustrates how these poems fit into the ongoing discourse about the indigenization of knowledge vis-à-vis the pedagogy imported from the West.

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The pose of the author: colonial Africa and the operations of genre

Lahiri

2019

Social Dynamics

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Lateral texts and circuits of value: Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino and Wer pa Lawino

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

“A passion to change the landscape and drive a renaissance”: The mRNA Hub at Afrigen as decolonial aspiration

“A passion to change the landscape and drive a renaissance”: The mRNA Hub at Afrigen as decolonial aspiration

African poetry and the intellectual: A critique of the academy in verse

The pose of the author: colonial Africa and the operations of genre

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