Grace Ogot

Grace Ogot Grace Emily Akinyi actually ( born May 15, 1930 in Asembo in Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya) is one of the first writers of Africa and arguably the most important writer in East Africa.

Life

Ogot visited the Ng'iya Girls' School and the Butere High School in Butere. Then she settled in Uganda and the UK to train as a nurse and midwife and worked as a midwife in Kenya later. Because she switched to journalism and worked for the BBC radio as a spokesperson and editor, but also for the Air India in the PR management. In 1959 she married the historian Bethwell Alan Ogot and became the mother of four children. Ogot has held various ambassadorial posts at the United Nations and UNESCO. She was also a founding member of the Writers 'Union, the " Writers' Association of Kenya ". In 1984 she was one of the few female members of parliament and became an assistant minister under President Daniel arap Moi as the only woman Cabinet rank.

Scripture Combinatorial activity

Ogot reached international attention with her ​​work as the first writer of Africa. Her short stories published in anthologies or in African and European magazines such as Black Orpheus and Transition. She was the first black African in 1966, covering a complete novel in an African publishing house in the East African Publishing House in Nairobi could publish ( " The Promised Land "). She writes novels and short stories in English and Luo, their Herkunftsethnie. Like her compatriot Ngugi wa Thiong'o, she stresses the importance of local languages. 1962 and 1964 two short stories were published about her. Her breakthrough came in 1966 with her ​​first novel, " The Promised Land ", which takes up the problem of the modern population migration in Kenya. In her second novel, " The Graduate " (1980 ), she tells the story of a man who returns to his studies in the U.S. home. That gives her the opportunity to address the problem of gender inequality in politics and to show how successful women can be when they only get the chance.

Works

  • The Promised Land. Nairobi: East African Publishing House ( EAPH ), 1966 / Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1990 ( novel).
  • Country without thunder. Nairobi: EAPH, 1968 ( short stories ).
  • The Other Woman, 1976 ( short stories ).
  • The Graduate. Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980 (novel).
  • The Iceland of tears. Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980 ( short stories )
  • Miaha. 1983 ( The retelling of a rural Luo Sage)
  • The strange bride. Nairobi; Heinemann, 1989 ( novel, translated from the Luo of Okoth Okombo )
  • The Other woman. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1992 ( short stories )
  • Artist (Kenya )
  • Kenyan Ambassador
  • Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Member of Parliament (Kenya )
  • Kenyans
  • Midwife
  • Born in 1930
  • Woman
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