Margaret Ogola: The writer who became a doctor

Margaret Ogola

She won the 1995 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the ‘Best First Book in Africa’ with ‘The River and the Source,’ a novel which follows the inter-related lives of four generations of women in pre and post-colonial Kenya.

Margaret Atieno Ogola was not a fulltime writer, but a paediatrician, the medical director of Cottolengo Hospice for HIV/Aids orphans.