Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

thumb|A young Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (21 October 1928 – 1 December 2015) also known as the mother of ‘Kenyan literature’ was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became independent. She was a poet, novelist, and a missionary bookseller. Quotes "I am so much enmeshed in my Luo family and community I am not afraid of writing from within it either." As quoted in her book The Feminist Companion to Literature in English as mentioned in this article. Quotes about person/work "I had already worked out, long before, that Marjorie was an exceptional human being and, consequently, I contrived to record as much about her as I could, for posterity." By John Sibi-Okumi is a Nairobi-based author, teacher, actor-playwright and broadcaster in the article Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye: Kenya’s literary enigma published on Friday 11, December 2015. External links Category:Essayists from Kenya Category:Poets from Kenya Category:Novelists from Kenya Category:Women authors from Kenya Category:1928 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Women born in the 1920s Category:People from Southampton