Quote of the day
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
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)