Grace Ogot

Grace Ogot, born Grace Emily Akinyi on 15 May 1930 in Asembo, in Luo country, into an Anglican family. Trained as a nurse in Uganda and then in London, she was a scriptwriter and announcer at the BBC, where she hosted a programme in Luo, before working in Kisumu and for an airline. A delegate to the UN in 1975 and to UNESCO in 1976, she chaired the Kenya writers' association, which she had helped to found, then became a member of parliament and assistant minister for Culture. She died in Nairobi on 18 March 2015.

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• Short storiesLand Without ThunderGrace Ogot · 1968Literature