Author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
Grace Emily Ogot (née Akinyi; 15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published.[1] She was one of the first Kenyan members of parliament and she became an assistant minister.[2]
^Mike Kuria, ed. Talking Gender: Conversations with Kenyan Women Writers, 2003. PJ-Kenya, p. 71.
^Kenyan Writer Grace Ogor Dies Archived 24 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, 18 March 2015, The Insider.org, Retrieved 14 May 2016
Grace Emily Ogot (née Akinyi; 15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma...
be marginalized in Kenyan literature. Important Kenyan writers include GraceOgot, Meja Mwangi, Paul Kipchumba, Kinyanjui Kombani, Margaret Ogola, Ngũgĩ...
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first publication, it received mixed reviews. For instance, Kenyan author GraceOgot spoke positively of the novel in a review which appeared in the East Africa...
Kikuyu legends and storytelling traditions. In the 1960s Waciuma and GraceOgot became the first Kenyan women writers to be published in English. Charity...
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(1927–2006) Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1924–1994) Margaret Ogola (1958–2011) GraceOgot (1930–2015) M. G. Vassanji (born 1950) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938),...
2015 – Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939) 2015 – GraceOgot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930) 2016 – Barry Hines...
"The gentlemen of the jungle" by Jomo Kenyatta, "The green leaves" by GraceOgot, "Bossy" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, "The spider's web" by Leonard Kibera, "Minutes...
language. Notable contributors and editorial staff included Taban lo Liyong, GraceOgot, Adrian Roscoe, Angus Calder, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Jared Angira, and...
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