Okello Oculi (born 1 January 1942) is a Ugandan novelist, poet, and chronicler of rural African village life.
Before that, he served as Professor of Social & Economic Research at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.
During his undergraduate studies at Makerere, he spent one year, from 1964 until 1965, as an exchange student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, United States.
In 1968, he obtained the degree of Master of Arts (MA), from the University of Essex, in the United Kingdom.
[3] His writing is filled with authentic snatches of conversation, proverbs, and folk wisdom.