GRACE OGOT THE INTERLLECT PASSES ON

" 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(1989).How funny she joked in her books with great satire and hyperbole that included fun making her one of World's interesting writers.
Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot  (born May 15, 1930) was 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 1962 and 1964 .Grace was the wife of Professor Bethwel Ogot.She passed on this morning at Nairobi Hospital according to Standard news Kenya.

 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.
For adamant readers and linguists as well as literature appreciators,the name is no guest to the world of books and novels.
 Ogot was not only an author  and the first woman to have fiction published by the East African Publishing House, but an accomplished midwife, tutor, journalist and a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster. Grace Ogot was a founding member of the Writers' Association of Kenya.
As a woman known widely for her anthologized short stories and novels, Ogot`s first novel The Promised Land (1966) was published in the same year as Flora Nwapa's Efuru and deals with the subject of migration. Her stories—which appeared in European and African journals such as Black Orpheus and Transition and in collections such as Land Without Thunder (1968), The Other Woman (1976), and The Island of Tears (1980)—give an inside view of traditional Luo life and society and the conflict of traditional with colonial and modern cultures. Her novel The Promised Land (1966) tells of Luo pioneers in Tanzania and western Kenya.
Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot earned a distinctive position in Kenya's literary and political history. The best known writer in East Africa, and with a varied career background, she became in 1984 one of only a handful of women to serve as a member of Parliament and the only woman assistant minister in the cabinet of President Daniel Arap Moi.
 Alot can be written about this hero far as huge as the pages of the novels and short stories that she wrote including;
*Ber wat (1981) in Luo.
*The Graduate, Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980.
*The Island of Tears (short stories), Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980.
*Land Without Thunder; short stories, Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1968.
*Miaha (in Luo), 1983; translated as The Strange Bride by Okoth Okombo (1989)
*The Other Woman: selected short stories, Nairobi: Transafrica, 1976.
*The Promised Land: a novel, Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1966.
*The Strange Bride translated from Dholuo (originally published as Miaha, 1983) by Okoth Okombo, Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1989.
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She is wife of academician Professor Bethwel Allan Ogot
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000155242/former-politician-author-grace-ogot-passes-on

She is wife of academician Professor Bethwel Allan Ogot
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000155242/former-politician-author-grace-ogot-passes-on

She is wife of academician Professor Bethwel Allan Ogot
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000155242/former-politician-author-grace-ogot-passes-on