Bole Odaga: I slipped and took to my heels from arms of men

Asenath Bole Odaga, writer and researcher in Oral Literature.  [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]

By ABENEA NDAGO

Even though she has grown quieter than she used to be, Asenath Bole Odaga’s place in Kenya’s Oral Literature is not easy to erase. Indeed, most Kenyans may have been led into the false belief that the writer of Oral Literature: A School Certificate Course (1982) – together with S. Kichamu Akivaga – had long given up on writing.