Margaret Ogola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margaret Ogola

Kenyan author

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1958

Place of Birth: Kenya

Date of Death: 22-Sep-2011

Profession: physician writer, pediatrician

Nationality: Kenya

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Margaret Atieno Ogola (12 June 1958 – 21 September 2011) was a Kenyan novelist who wrote The River and the Source and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo.
The River and the Source follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society.
The book has been on the KCSE syllabus for many years, and it won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region.
Ogola completed on her final book, titled Mandate of the people, before her death and it is set to be released posthumously.
She was also the recipient of the Familias Award for Humanitarian Service of the World Congress of Families.In addition to her writing career, Ogola served as a paediatrician and the medical director of Cottolengo Hospice, a hospice for HIV and AIDS orphans.