THE RARE BEACON OF HOPE:-
LETS CELEBRATE GRACE OGOT
O, the rain has come for our icon,
Yawa, let’s
Celebrate Grace Ogot
Our rare multi-multi
Talented icon
Let’s celebrate this ever
Smiling lady of thrift
With the gift for philanthropy
The rare beacon of hope,
During dark days of illiteracy
The rare lily in the Luo universe
Ever
Exuding intellectual fragrance
Let’s celebrate nyar Asembo
Mama Grace Ogot
Who cherished Christian values
This delineated her life
As the only nominated and elected women M.P
For Gem
Gem the home of the legends
Odera Akang’o and CMG Argwings Kodhek
You championed
Education for the girl child.
Let’s celebrate Grace Ogot
The rare beacon of hope
Let’s celebrate this kind hearted
Mulago trained nurse and BBC Radio Journalist
Who inspired by Luo culture,
mythology and folklore
Aspired matured into
A renowned writer
Articulating the role
Of women in
Patriarchal society
We celebrate the life
Of an extraordinary
Mother and wife to an
International historian:
Prof Bethwel Alan Ogot.
Let’s celebrate a great
Personality,always
Elegant in her distinctive headgear
And mono-tone flowing dresses
The rare beacon of hope
The rain has come for our icon
The care beacon of hope
Let’s celebrate Grace Ogot
Born in rural Asembo
This great African writer
Educated at Ng’iya and Butere Girls High Schools.
Government Assistant Minister for Culture in 1987.
We celebrate Grace Ogot
The politician, the nurse, the broadcast Journalist, the diplomat and P.R .practioneer
Besides being a mother and a wife.
We celebrate a nurse, while studying at St James Hospital, England in 1962
She presented B.B.C Radio program
‘’London Calling East Africa’’
We are Celebrating an inspired author
0f nine books
The Promised Land, The Rain Came, The Year Of Sacrifice, Island Of Tears, Ward Nine,
The Graduate, The Other Women, Miaha and Days Of My Life
We celebrate the founder of Writers’ Association of Kenya
One among 570 authors of the 20th century, featured in the 4 volume
Of Modern Women Writers published in 1996
W e celebrate a gold hearted matron
Who selflessly donated her School Jubilee High School to facilitate the Odera Akang’o Campus
In honour of
The legendary Gem Chief.
O WE MOURN A GREATE AFRICAN MATRON
BY
AKECH OBAT MASIRA AND
OMAR NASSER
IN KISUMU, KENYA ON 3RD APRIL 2015
MISANGO ARTS ENSEMBLE