Google honours Margaret Ogola, author of The River and the Source

Margaret Ogola was an author, humanitarian wife and mother

For the better part of the 90s, the epic novel, The River and the Source, was the set book for those who sat their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in those years. Its author, Margaret Ogola, is still celebrated as a stellar author. She managed to gel African tradition with modernity in a way that is still relatable 25 years after the book was first published.

Today is her 60^th birthday, which Google has marked, albeit posthumously, with a doodle dedicated to her. She succumbed to cancer in 2011.