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Grace Ogot
East AfricaPost-colonialFiction
The Promised Land
1966Grace Ogot
A Luo family migrates from Kenya to Tanzania in search of a better life, but the husband's obsession with wealth leads into a terrifying encounter with a supernatural curse, a collision of ambition, tradition, and the unknown.
East AfricaFiction
Land Without Thunder
1968Grace Ogot
A short story collection drawing on Luo oral tradition, folklore, and the tensions of modern Kenya, death, spirits, marriage, and the fragile balance between old and new ways of life in East Africa.
East AfricaFiction