Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, born Marjorie Phyllis King on 21 October 1928 in Southampton, studied English at the University of London and worked as a bookseller at Foyles. Sent to Nairobi in 1954 to run a missionary bookshop, she married the doctor Daniel Oludhe Macgoye in 1960, took Kenyan nationality in 1964, learned the language and history of the Luo, who nicknamed her “mother of Gem”, and ran writing workshops. A novelist and poet, she devoted herself entirely to writing from 1983. She died in Nairobi on 1 December 2015.

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• NovelComing to BirthMarjorie Oludhe Macgoye · 1986Literature