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Jun 02, 1958 Kenya Died on 22 Sep 2011 (aged 53)
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About Margaret Ogola
- Margaret Atieno Ogola (12 June 1958 – 21 September 2011) was a Kenyan novelist who wrote The River and the Source and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo.
- The River and the Source follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society.
- The book has been on the KCSE syllabus for many years, and it won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region.
- Ogola completed on her final book, titled Mandate of the people, before her death and it is set to be released posthumously.
- She was also the recipient of the Familias Award for Humanitarian Service of the World Congress of Families.In addition to her writing career, Ogola served as a paediatrician and the medical director of Cottolengo Hospice, a hospice for HIV and AIDS orphans.
