User:Lakiluhk Okoth

Lakiluhk Okoth(Laki, Zinjanthropus)(born Lucky Luke Okoth Odawo) is a Kenyan cartoonist, literary critic, and poet. Okoth hails from Urudi(Kisumu county, Kenya). He is the lastborn child of the eight children born to Jaduong' Odawo Ondu(Soja) and Mama Tavia Anyango(Nya'Rae).

Lakiluhk Okoth is presently a student at Maseno University(from 2017) pursuing a bachelors degree in Secondary Education. He is an alumnus of Urudi Mixed Secondary School(2016), Mbita High School(2014), and Katito Amani Academy(2012).

Okoth the cartoonist.

As a cartoonist, Okoth goes by the moniker— Laki. He started his tenure as a cartoonist in 2016 specialising in digital painting. However, Okoth admits that he makes his caricartures without an intent to generate income. In his own words, he says, “I do this for the thrill, and not for the bills: this is priceless[. . .]nobody can(would) buy it.”

Laki's cartoons explores issues ranging across political, social and economic discourses; within and outside his home country, Kenya.

Okoth and literature.

In his engagement with poetry, Okoth goes by his other pseudonym— Zinjanthropus. Okoth has written a number of poems. His recurrent themes cut across: social, philosophical, economic, and political issues. Below is a list of some of his poems:

Nyamnaha, The First Marxist, Penile Piety, God is Dead, Homo Qwertydian, Ghetto Valentine, I Wonder: Does God Have Middle Fingers?, Finnerthangus flakes, An Encomium to the Ghetto Raconteur, F-ing Disorders, All the Same, Team Lambalamba, Disoriented occident

Okoth is also a contributor to the online discussion forum for Maseno University English and Literature Students Association(MUELISA); a platform where students post their literary pieces and, critique others' the same.

In addition, Lakiluhk Okoth is also involved in translation of literary texts to Dholuo, his mother-tongue. Some of the texts he is currently translating include Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, and the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Influences: Paul the Apostle, Seneca, Michel de Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Nelson Mandela, Kevin Kallaugher, Makau W. Mutua, Maddo, and Gado.