Evaluated from the point of view of the person’s exceptionally long life and his precious contribution in the spheres of Ethiopian politics, literature, culture and education, as a whole, Haddis Alemayehu would deserve to be celebrated every year either on the occasion of his birthday or on that of his death.
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KENYA’S GRACE OGOT – 1930 – 2015
For decades, she took up the pen and told the most gripping stories that hooked many a reader. She is no doubt a woman who has powerfully influenced East Africa’s literature. Together with Charity Wacium she is the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published.
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