ASK QUESTIONS

To them
The good children
Are those
Who ask no questions,
Who accept everything
Like the tomb
Which does not reject
Even a dead leper!
Who accept everything
Like the rubbish pit,
Like the pit-latrine
Which does not reject
Even dysentery!

—page 137, Song of Lawino: An African Lament by Okot p'Bitek (as found in section 9, "From the Mouth of Which River?").