Bethwell Allan Ogot (born 1929) is a historian from Kenya.
He specialises in African history, research methods and theory.
One of his works starts by saying that "to tell the story of a past so as to portray an inevitable destiny is, for humankind, a need as universal as tool-making.
To that extent, we may say that a human being is, by nature, historicus.He was the Chancellor of Moi University up to early 2013.