Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (21 October 1928 – 1 December 2015) also known as the mother of ‘Kenyan literature’ was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became independent. She was a poet, novelist, and a missionary bookseller.

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"I am so much enmeshed in my Luo family and community I am not afraid of writing from within it either."

- Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

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"I had already worked out, long before, that Marjorie was an exceptional human being and, consequently, I contrived to record as much about her as I could, for posterity."

- Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

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