Quote of the day
Dear reader, do you know the living God? Is He, in Jesus, your Father? Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds, and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
Grace Ogot
Born: May 15, 1930
Died: March 18, 2015 (aged 84)
Bio: Grace Ogot was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published. She was one of the first Kenyan members of parliament and she became an assistant minister.
Known for:
- Land Without Thunder: Short Stories (1968)
- The Promised Land: A Novel (1966)
- The Other Woman: Selected Short Stories (1976)
- The Strange Bride (1989)
- Short Stories from Kenya (1976)