USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tribute to the late Grace Ogot

Subject: From the Storymoja tribute to the late Grace Ogot

"Grace Ogot has always been there. Like Barbara Kimenye, Margaret Ogola, Charity Waciuma, and Muthoni Likimani, she is part of a Kenyan writerly vernacular, a name foundational to Kenyan writing. A name we who call ourselves feminists invoke to say:women were writing at the beginning. Because she is so foundational, it is difficult to imagine a world without her. We never imagine that our foundations might leave. And, when they do, we try to gather fragments from the rubble to say something. Anything. Grief muffles eloquence."

From the Storymoja tribute to Grace Ogot: http://blog.storymojafestival.com/grace-ogot-a-tribute/