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Grace Ogot (May 15, 1930 – March 18, 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she is the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published.〔Mike Kuria, ed ''Talking Gender: Conversations with Kenyan Women Writers'' 2003. PJ-Kenya. PP. 71〕 ==Biography== Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi to a Christian family on 15 May 1930 〔Peter Ngangi Nguli () "Grace Ogot took the African Story to the World", 10 September 2013〕 in Asembo, in the district of Nyanza, Kenya – a village highly populated by the predominantly Christian Luo ethnic group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Luo )〕 Her father, Joseph Nyanduga, was one of the first men in the village of Asembo to obtain a Western education. He converted early on to the Anglican Church, and taught at the Church Missionary Society’s Ng'iya Girls’ School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Ogot )〕 From her father, Ogot learned the stories of the Old Testament and it was from her grandmother that Ogot learned the traditional folk tales of the area from which she would later draw inspiration.〔Bernth Lindfors "Interview with Grace Ogot", 1979, ''in'' World Literature Written in English 18(1) 57–68〕 Ogot attended the Ng'iya Girls' School and Butere High School throughout her youth. From 1949 to 1953, Grace Ogot trained as a nurse at the Nursing Training Hospital in Uganda. She later worked in London, England, at the St. Thomas Hospital for Mothers and Babies. She returned to the African nursing profession in 1958, working at the Maseno Hospital, run by the Church Missionary Society in Kisumu County in Kenya.〔 Following this, Ogot worked at Makerere University College in Student Health Services.〔 In addition to her experience in healthcare, Ogot gained experience in multiple different areas, working for the BBC Overseas Service as a script-writer and announcer on the program "London Calling East and Central Africa",〔Bernth Lindfors "Interview with Grace Ogot", 1979, ''in'' World Literature Written in English 18(1) 57–68〕 operating a prominent radio program in the Luo language, working as an officer of community development in Kisumu County and as a public relations officer for the Air India Corporation of East Africa.〔 In 1975, Ogot worked as a Kenyan delegate to the general assembly of the United Nations. Subsequently, in 1976, she became a member of the Kenyan delegation to UNESCO. That year, she chaired and helped found the Writers' Association of Kenya.〔 In 1983 she became one of only a handful of women to serve as a member of parliament and the only woman assistant minister in the cabinet of then President Daniel arap Moi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grace Ogot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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