Grace Ogot: A blast from the past

Grace Ogot [seated holding a baby] She was a medical personnel giving instructions on babycare at Homecraft Training Centre in Kisumu 28th JUNE 1963

Grace Emily Akinyi was born on May 15, 1930 in sleepy Asembo, Nyanza. Her father Joseph Nyanduga was a teacher and one of the first men in his village to receive western education. He had no idea that he held in his hands an author, a politician, a diplomat and a nurse all rolled into one.

Grace grew up like any other village child in Luo land, she listened to her grandmother's traditional folklore and unknown to her at the time, that folklore was shaping her career as an author. Grace went to Ng'inya and Butere girls' schools, She later joined Nursing Training School in Uganda.