What to Read After Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Readers who loved Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
The river between
Mine boy
Efuru
The palm-wine drinkard ; and, My life in the bush of ghosts
A Collector of Treasures
Butterfly burning
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Abyssinian Chronicles
Pauvre Christ De Bomba
Fire on the mountain
A Question of Power
Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
Nigerians in Space
Woman at Point Zero
Death and the king's horseman
Weep not, child
The beggar's strike, or, The dregs of society
Betrayal in the city
The old man and the medal
Forest of a Thousand Daemons
Coming to birth
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
A woman in her prime
Forest of a Thousand Daemons