# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-bitek-okot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:02:57.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-bitek-okot"
name: "p’Bitek Okot"
slug: "p-bitek-okot"
description: "Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised. Song of Lawino was originally written in the Acholi dialect of Southern Luo, translated by the author into English, and published in 1966. It was a breakthrough work, creating an audience among anglophone Africans for direct, topical poetry in English; and incorporating traditional attitudes and thinking in an accessible yet faithful literary vehicle. It was followed by the Song of Ocol (1970), the husband's reply."
tagline: "Ugandan poet (1931–1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Okot_bitek.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-06-07"
deathDate: "1982-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             1.421052631578948
  historical:           12.96288933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p%E2%80%99Bitek"
    title: "Okot p’Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p%E2%80%99Bitek"
    title: "Okot p’Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%BF_%D5%BA%E2%80%99%D4%B2%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%AF"
    title: "Օկոտ պ’Բիտեկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "オコト・ビテック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/P'Bitek_Okot"
    title: "P'Bitek Okot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%E2%80%99%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82"
    title: "П’Битек, Окот"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okot_p'Bitek"
    title: "Okot p'Bitek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BF'%D0%91%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Окот п'Бітек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1113362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump