The Promised Land

Grace Ogot is a prolific Kenyan writer. Born in western Kenya in 1930, she attended Ngiya High School and Butere Girls High and thereafter trained as a nurse in Uganda and England. She has had along public career and has held such portfolios as Community Development Officer and Public Relations Officer. She was for some time Assistant Minister in the  Kenya Government in charge of culture and social services. Her experience as a writer includes writing scripts for BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and hence her extensive list of publication. Her other works published in the Peak Library include: Land Without Thunder, The Other Woman and The Strange Bride