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Perhaps she has aborted many children, or maybe she has even thrown her twins into the pit latrine!

— Okot p'Bitek Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (1966)

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In the wisdom of the Acoli, time is not stupidly split up into seconds and minutes. It does not flow like beer in a pot that is sucked until it is finished.

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I really hate the charcoal stove! Your hand is always charcoal-dirty and anything you touch is blackened; and your finger nails resemble those of a poison woman.

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Each man, though not necessarily with his wife, dances inside a dark house. They shamelessly hold each other tightly, so tightly that it feels as if they can barely breathe.

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I am terribly afraid of the electric stove, I do not like using it because you stand up when you cook.

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I may not fully understand the ways of foreigners, but I do not despise their customs.

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