{UAH} Okot P'Bitek' failed DPhil (PhD) thesis
Okot P'Bitek' failed DPhil (PhD) thesis available at Tylor Library at the University of Oxford. The examiners who included the famous Prof E.E. Evans-Pritchard
had expected P'Bitek to write his work from European lenses I.e from the way Whites viewed African religion , culture and spirituality, but P'Bitek took a radical African view of how he undestood his own people and their way of life.
They gave him a chance to make the corrections, but P'Bitek resubmitted his work without making the recommended changes because he didn't want to corrupt the way he viewed the Luo people.
His views were that Luo were one people only separated by colonial boundaries and migration. Furthermore he hated the use of the word "tribe" "savage" and "natives". Consequently, the examiners failed him with no right to supplicate. But the truth is that P'Bitek failed willingly. He still became one of Africa's greatest poets. His later views were that no African should study social anthropology because it is influenced by Eurocentrism.
✍️ Odhiambo Levin Opiyo
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