Tag: Margaret Ogola
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Kenyan author Margaret Ogola honoured posthumously in Nairobi.
Kenyan author Margaret Ogola was honoured posthumously with a Google doodle and an event at Prestige Books in Nairobi on June 12, 2019. Margaret Ogola was a Kenyan paediatrician and author of the novel The River and the Source, and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo. The River and the Source follows four generations of…
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A review of Margaret Ogola’s Mandate of the People
Book: Mandate of the people. Author: Margaret Ogola Publisher: Focus Publishers Year of publication: 2012 Number of pages: 246 Many Kenyans will be familiar with Margaret Ogola’s 1995 Commonwealth Prize-winning novel The River and The Source. The book also went home with Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Prize for literature. This is not because the book about…
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The Olare Mara Kempinski library; opportunities abound.
Last year, I visited one of the most beautiful wildlife destinations on the planet; The Maasai Mara. At that place, I was a guest at the Olare Mara Kempinski which is in the Olare Orok Conservancy. Suffice it to say that the place is one of the best I have ever had the pleasure of…