"I am so much enmeshed in my Luo family and community I am not afraid of writing from within it either."
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As quoted in her book The Feminist Companion to Literature in English as mentioned in this article.
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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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