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Opio Dokotum
Okaka Opio Dokotum is an associate professor of literature and film and deputy vice-chancellor (Academic Affairs) at Lira University in Uganda. An eclectic multidisciplinary resear...view moreOkaka Opio Dokotum is an associate professor of literature and film and deputy vice-chancellor (Academic Affairs) at Lira University in Uganda. An eclectic multidisciplinary researcher, Dokotum has published extensively in the fields of literature-film adaptation theory, trauma cinema and aesthetics, performative poetics, music video aesthetics, visual history, heritage studies and Ugandan literature. He is a playwright, poet and filmmaker, and has adapted his play Wek Abonyo Kwani ['Let Abonyo Study'] (2003) into the first feature film in Lëblango/Lwo. Four of his plays and a poetry anthology in Lёblango are taught at secondary school and university levels in Uganda. He is a columnist for Rupiny, a Ugandan Lwo weekly, and serves on the jury of the Uganda Film Festival.view less
Books by Opio Dokotum
Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth from 1908-2020