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Atieno Yo author Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye takes the final bow

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Curtains have come down on Kenya's prolific novelist and poet Majorie Oludhe MacGoye who died at her home in Nairobi Tuesday afternoon at the age of 87.

Majorie best known as Nyaloka for her close friends, family and colleagues is best remembered for literary works especially her book Coming To Birth that at some stage was a national set book for candidates of literature in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.

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