Grace Akello
Not to be confused with Grace Akallo.
Grace Akello (born 1950) is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician.[1]
Life
An Iteso born near Soroti, in the Eastern Region of Uganda, Akello studied Social Administration and Social Work at Makerere University. She worked as a magazine editor in Kenya and Tanzania before travelling to England in 1981 to be Assistant Editor at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
A mother of four sons, she and her second husband live in UK and Uganda.[1] In 1996 she became a member of the Parliament of Uganda, and in 1999 was appointed Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development.[2] She was the Minister of State for Northern Uganda Rehabilitation until losing her seat in 2006. She is currently the Uganda Ambassador to Italy.[3]
Works
- Iteso Thought Patterns in Tales, 1975
- My Barren Song. Dar es Salam, Tanzania: Eastern African Publications, 1979[4]
- Self Twice-Removed: Ugandan Woman, 1982
References
- 1 2 Marie Umeh, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, Routledge, 2001, pp. 6–7.
- ↑ 2020 Africa Conference.
- ↑ "The Ambassador", Embassy of Uganda in Rome.
- ↑ Her poem "Encounter", from My Barren Song, is included in Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp. 638–39.
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