Grace emily akinyi ogot biography of mahatma
Grace emily akinyi ogot biography of mahatma
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Grace Ogot
Kenyan author (1930–2015)
Grace Ogot | |
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| Born | Grace Emily Akinyi 15 May 1930 Asembo, Nyanza, Kenya |
| Died | 18 March 2015(2015-03-18) (aged 84) Nairobi, Kenya |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Known for | 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]
Biography
Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi to a Christian family on 15 May 1930[3] in Asembo, in the district of Nyanza, Kenya – a village highly populated by the predominantly Christian Luo ethnic group.[4] Her father, Joseph Nyanduga, was one of the first men in the village of Asembo to obtain a Western education.
He converted early on t