Benge Okot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benge Okot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benge |
| FAMILY NAME | Okot |
| SIGNATURE | OKOT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notions of self and community in Kampala urban space in Ugandan poetry anthologies
This article discusses the notion of self and community in urban space as represented in selected poems. We examine poems published from the 1970s to 2015 in the literary magazine, Dhana, and the anthology, Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems. The article interrogates the poets’ construction of relationships, perceptions and attitudes towards the “self” and “community” in the urban space. We argue that selfhood is relational but unstable and ever-sh…
Lateral texts and circuits of value
African writers are increasingly producing literary texts that appear almost simultaneously in two languages – an indigenous African language and English. One of these texts is often considered a translation while the other is said to be the original. As Harry Garuba has argued, this model does not adequately capture the relationship between these texts for several reasons, not least of all because this conventional description assumes a vertical…
Lateral texts and circuits of value
African writers are increasingly producing literary texts that appear almost simultaneously in two languages – an indigenous African language and English. One of these texts is often considered a translation while the other is said to be the original. As Harry Garuba has argued, this model does not adequately capture the relationship between these texts for several reasons, not least of all because this conventional description assumes a vertical…
Lateral texts and circuits of value
African writers are increasingly producing literary texts that appear almost simultaneously in two languages – an indigenous African language and English. One of these texts is often considered a translation while the other is said to be the original. As Harry Garuba has argued, this model does not adequately capture the relationship between these texts for several reasons, not least of all because this conventional description assumes a vertical…
Notions of self and community in Kampala urban space in Ugandan poetry anthologies
This article discusses the notion of self and community in urban space as represented in selected poems. We examine poems published from the 1970s to 2015 in the literary magazine, Dhana, and the anthology, Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems. The article interrogates the poets’ construction of relationships, perceptions and attitudes towards the “self” and “community” in the urban space. We argue that selfhood is relational but unstable and ever-sh…
Art (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)