Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree

This collection of poems draws on traditional storytelling tropes like animal characters, moral lessons, proverbs and repetition to examine the present issues facing African nations.

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book-author

Taban Io Liyong

publisher

Africa Research & Publications

language

English

pages

100

year-published

1998

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Taban lo Liyong

Taban Lo Liyong (born 1939) is a Ugandan poet, and writer of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his outspoken disapproval of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired both further criticism as well as controversy since the late 1960s.

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