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Grace Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi in Butere in She went to the local girls&#; schools, where she learned English, which she used to read the Bible, an early influence on her work. She went to England to study nursing and, while there, corresponded with the historian Bethwell Allan Ogot, whom she later married. She started writing in her mother tongue, Luo, before switching to English and Swahili. While working as a nursing sister in Uganda, she attended a literary conference and was surprised to find no books from East African writers, so she determined to be more productive. She started writing stories, before moving on to novels. She makes extensive use of the traditions, folklore and background of Luo region of Kenya in her writings. As well as writing, she has been an M. P. and minister in Kenya as well as working for the BBC as an editor and broadcaster. She died in
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&#;Eee, that man&#;s daughter was built; we can&#;t refuse to acknowledge what our eyes are showing us tho! Owiny has brought us such a beautiful girl; a girl who shines like the sun&#;s eye; who is as pretty as a copper ornament&#; ~ Grace Ogot, The Strange Bride () &#;When you are frightened, don&#;t sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.&#;~ Grace Ogot Grace Ogot, celebrated Kenyan writer of ethnic Luo origin, accomplished midwife, tutor, journalist and a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster and the first woman to publish a novel in East Africa and second in Africa after Nigeria`s Flora Nwapa. Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot &#;(born May 15, ) is a celebrated Kenyan writer of ethnic Luo origin credited for being the first African woman writer in English to be published with two short stories in and Ogot was not only an author &#;and the first woman to have fiction published by the East African Publishing House, but an accomplished m
Ogot, Grace (—)
Kenyan author and politician who is considered an outstanding member of Kenya's (and East Africa's) first generation of writers. Born Grace Emily Akinyi on May 15, , at Butere, near Kisumu, Central Nyanza, Kenya; married Bethwell Allan Ogot (a noted Kenyan historian), in ; children: daughter, Wasonga Grace; sons, Odera-Akongo, Otieno Mudhune, Onyuna.
Selected works:
The Graduate (Nairobi: Uzima, ); The Island of Tears (Nairobi: Uzima, ); Land Without Thunder (Nairobi: East African Publishing, );The Other Woman: Selected Short Stories (Nairobi: Transafrica, ); The Promised Land: A True Fantasy (Nairobi: East African Publishing, ); The Strange Bride (Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, ).
One of Kenya's most distinguished artists, Grace Ogot creates worlds that blend magic and reality. In her life as well, she achieved success in contexts that are both African and Western. She was born Grace Akinyi in into a Luo-speaking family. While being lulled to sleep as a child, she would listen to traditional folktales told by her paternal grandmother, who was a renowned storyteller in the area. An influence at least as powerful as these ancient African stories we
Grace Emily (Akinyi) Ogot ( - )
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Grace (Akinyi) Ogot was born in Kenya
Grace Ogot was a Kenyan nurse, author, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone (English-speaking) female Kenyan writer to be published, and was also one of the first Kenyan members of parliament.[1]
Grace Emily Akinyi was born 15 May in Asembo, Nyanza, Kenya into an ethnic Luon family (Asembo, Siaya County today). She was the daughter of Joseph Nyanduga and Rahel Ogori Nyanduga.[1][2] She had two sisters, Rose Orondo and Robert Jalango, and three brothers. [3]
Grace trained as a nurse at the Nursing Training Hospital in Uganda, graduating in She worked at St Thomas Hospital for Mothers and Babies in London, England, and later returned to Kenya. While in England, she also worked for the BBC Overseas Service as a script writer. In , she was a Kenyan delegate to the United Nations general assembly. In , she became one of the first women to serve as Member of Parliament in Kenya. [1][3]
A decisive moment for Grace's writing career came in , when at a campus conference on African w
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