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Odaga, Asenath Bole. Kenya (1938- )Prolific Kenyan writer of children's literature spent most of her childhood among the Luo an ethnic group in western Kenya. She got her teaching diploma from Kikuyu Teachers Training College, and her B.A. and M.A. degerees from the University of Nairobi Kenya. Odaga worked as a teacher, headmistress, tutor, and later research fellow before she retired. Since her retirement she has devoted most her time to fulltime writing. from 1988 - 1993 she served as the chair person of the Children's literature association of Kenya. Odaga has published children material in both English and Luo. Her fiction for younger children focuses on children's daily activities at home and at school . Many of her stories have moral teachings. she states that her books are "an attempt to give the children clear scope and ideas about their world, by depicting modes of behaviour familiar to the communities that form their society (37)." Work cited:Odaga, Asenath Bole. Literature for children and young people in Kenya. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1985. For more information see:Something about the author, Autobiographical Series. Vol 19. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Twentieth -Century Children's Writers. Fourth Edition. Edited by Laura Standley Berger. Detroit: St James Press, 1995. St. James guide to children's writers. 5th Edition. Detroit: St James Press, 1999. Published StoriesThe Angry Flames. Nairobi: E. A. Publishing, 1968. The Diamond Ring. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprices, 1988. Jande's ambition. Nairobi: E.A. Publishing, 1988. Munde and his friends. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1987. My home. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1983. The secret of the monkey rock. Nairobi: Thomas Nelson, 1966. The storm. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1985. Sweets and sugar cane. Nairobi: East African Pub, 1988. The Hare's blanket and other tales. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1967. Ogilo and the Hippo. Nairobi: Heinemann, 1991. The villager's son. Nairobi: Heinemann, 1971. Kip on the farm. Nairobi: East African Pub, 1972. Kip at the coast. Nairobi: Evans, 1977. Kip goes to the city. Nairobi: Evans, 1977. The rag ball. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1987. Story time. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1987. The silver cup. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1987. A night on a tree. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises. 1990. The cloud boy. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1994. The honey river. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1994. The night runners. Kisumo: Lake Pub and Enterprises, 1998. |
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