Bitek is a fictional substance mentioned numerous times in the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.
Gulu District is the birthplace of the prominent poet Okot p'Bitek.
Kwame Anthony Appiah remarks in In My Father's House that the specific cultural points made are carried off without the need for much exposition.
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He was at the Institute of African Studies of University College, Nairobi from 1971 as a senior research fellow and lecturer, with visiting positions at University of Texas at Austin and University of Ife in Nigeria in 1978/9.