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Kenyan literary icon Asenath Bole Odaga dies in Kisumu

Kisumu, Kenya: Prominent author and literary scholar Asenath Bole Odaga is dead. She has passed on in Kisumu after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Mrs Odaga was pronounced dead Monday at 5pm after suffering two successive heart attacks before succumbing at the Avenue Hospital.

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