Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Kenya Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A paediatrician and novelist whose The River and the Source (1994), following four generations of Luo women, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa.
The novel became a set book in Kenyan schools. She died in 2011.
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