Taban lo Liyong

 

Taban Lo Liyong (yazaalibwa 1939) omuwandiisi w'ebitontome, muyivu era muwandiisi we ebitaali bituufu n'okunenya ebiwandiiko okuva mu South Sudan . Yazaalibwa mu Kajo Kaji, Acholiland, mu bitundu by’e Equatoria mu bugwanjuba bwa Sudan kyokka n’atwalibwa mu Uganda ng’akyali muto. Endowooza ze ez’ebyobufuzi, awamu n’obutakkiriza mu lwatu enkola y’ebyenjigiriza ey’oluvannyuma lw’amatwale mu Buvanjuba bwa Afrika, bivuddeko okwongera okunenya awamu n’okusika omuguwa okuva ku nkomerero y’emyaka gya 1960.

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Yazaalibwa mu Acholiland mu kiseera ekyo ekyali ekitundu ky'obugwanjuba bwa Sudan wansi w'obufuzi bwa Bungereza . Oluvannyuma lw’okutikkirwa mu siniya mu Uganda, yasomera mu National Teachers College mu Kampala, ekibuga ekikulu ekya Uganda, nga tannagenda mu maaso na misomo gye egya diguli mu Knoxville College mu Tennessee, n’okusoma diguli eyookubiri mu Howard University . Ku University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, ye Mufirika eyasooka okutikkirwa mu 1968. Bwe yamaliriza emisomo gye mu Amerika, enfuga ey’obukambwe eya Idi Amin yamulemesa okudda mu Uganda . Wabula yagenda mu muliraano eKenya n’asomesa mu Yunivasite y’e Nairobi . Ng'oggyeko ekyo, yasomesezza ne ku ssettendekero mu Sudan, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Japan, ne South Africa. Ng'akolagana ne Henry Owuor-Anyumba n'omuwandiisi w'e Kenya Ngugi wa Thiong'o, yawandiika ku kuggyawo ekitongole ky'Olungereza mu 1972.