Songs of Lawino and Okoli (Both swahili and English)

[NOKIA100]

Salaamu wanajamvi

Tafadhali naomba kama kuna mdau mwenye soft copy ya kitabu cha Songs of Lawino aipost hapa jamvini.

Nawashukuru kwa ushirikiano

 

[Ndetimakete]

Hata mm nahitaj soft copy

 

[Chocolate]

Nami pia navihitaji sana maana vilinifanya nipende kipindi chake enzi hizo nilikuwa naona kama sinema vile na zaidi sana mwl alivyokuwa akifundisha kwa mbwembwe utadhani alikuwa na undugu na lawino!

 

[Kongosho]

I see, kopi yauzwa 6000 pale posta

 

[Dotworld]

European social and cultural values which go against traditional codes of behaviour. Imported forms of dancing, for example, result in immoral behaviour when each man dances with a woman who is not his wife .

Then, Lawino goes to attack:

Each man has a woman​

Although she is not his wife,​

They dance inside a house​

And there is no light​

Shamelessly, they hold each other​

Tightly, tightly,​

They cannot breathe (Songs of Lawino, P.44).​

Western dances are immoral because people embrace in public and dance with anyone, even close relatives said p'Bitek. Apart from being immoral, their kissing and dancing are seen as grotesquely ugly:

You kiss her on the cheek​

As white people do,​

You kiss her open-sore lips​

As white people do​

You suck slimy saliva​

From each other's mouths​

As white people do.» (Songs of Lawino, P.44).​

When Lawino was a young woman and how Ocol once wooed and won her .While she remembers Ocol `s wooing of her and the beauty of her home, Lawino's voice takes on a note of nostalgia:

When Ocol was wooing me​

My breasts were erect​

And they shook​

As I walked briskly, And as I walked​

I threw my long neck​

This way and that way​

Like the flower of the lyonno lily​

Waving in a gentle breeze.» (Songs of Lawino, P.47).​