Tag: Transitions
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Kenyan literary matriarch Grace Ogot has passed on
It’s not been a great time for Kenya’s literary matriarchs in recent times. In 2011 we said goodbye to Margaret Ogola the writer of The River and The Source and my personal favourite Mandate of the People. We then said goodbye to Asenath Odaga probably our greatest female writer and the first to set up…
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Fare thee well Dr Ali Mazrui
Dr Ali Mazrui is dead. The good doctor who had been unwell died in the US earlier today and shall be flown back home to be buried in his beloved continent.Daktari who was born in Mombasa, Kenya was an academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was a…