Kenya Former politician, author Grace Ogot passes on By Standard
Reporter Updated Wednesday, March 18th 2015 at 16:55 GMT +3 Share this story:
Grace Ogot Former Assistant Minister and author Grace Ogot has passed on. Ogot
died at Nairobi Hospital upon arrival at about 11am Wednesday. She had been in
frail health.
She is
wife of academician Professor Bethwel Allan Ogot. Ogot was a respected literary
icon who penned several books including the book Land without Thunder. While
condoling with the family, Gem MP and deputy minority leader Jakoyo Midiwo
remembered Ogot as a firm politician in the 80s and early 90s and who fought
for the girl child. Ogot was born in Asembo, Nyanza in 1930. She was a Kanu
hawk in her days. In 1984 she became one of the few women to serve as a Member
of Parliament and the only woman assistant minister in President Daniel Arap
Moi’s cabinet. She served as Gem MP and assistant minister for culture in 1985.
She was reappointed to the same ministerial position in 1988. See also: Court
declines to declare RBA boss unfit to hold public office Apart from Land
without Thunder, Ogot’s other literary works include The Promised Land, The
Other Woman and Other Stories, The Island of Tears and The Graduate.
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