1. The quotations from Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1966) are taken from pp. 140, 141, 142, 155, 156, 207 and 208.
2. The backdrop to Song of Lawino is the subject of James H. Mittelman, Ideology and Politics in Uganda: From Obote to Amin (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975).
3. The comments by Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘The Rise of Christian Europe’, The Listener (London), 28 November 1963, p. 871, are
4. reported by Ali A. Mazrui, Cultural Engineering and Nation-Building in East Africa (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1972) p. 7.
5. Severeid’s remarks were on CBS Evening News, 15 July 1975. The quote from Option 2 can be found in NSSM-39, edited and introduced by Mohamed A. El-Khawas and Barry Cohen, The Kissinger Study of Southern Africa (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill, 1976) p. 105.