and Christianity. Thus, quite a few writers received no encouragement from colonial publishers who were perhaps afraid of turning out radical writers critical of the colonial regime." She was interviewed in 1974 by Lee Nichols for a Voice of America radio broadcast that was aired between 1975 and 1979 (Voice of America radio series Conversations with African Writers, no. 23). The Library of Congress has a copy of the broadcast tape and the unedited original interview. The broadcast transcript appears in the 1981 book Conversations with African Writers. Three novels by her were posthumously published, launched by her husband in 2018. Publications From the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC: Aloo kod Apul-Apul (1981), in Luo. Ber wat (1981), in Luo. The Graduate, Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980. The Island of Tears (short stories), Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1980. Land Without Thunder; short stories, Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1968. Miaha (in Luo), 1983; translated as The Strange Bride by Okoth Okombo (1989) The Other Woman: Selected Short Stories, Nairobi: Transafrica, 1976. The Promised Land: a novel, Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1966. The Strange Bride, translated from Dholuo (originally published as Miaha, 1983) by Okoth Okombo; Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1989. Simbi Nyaima - the Lake that Sank (2018) The Royal Bead (2018) Princess Nyilaak (2018) See also Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania References 1930 births 2015 deaths Kenyan women writers Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) Kenyan women diplomats Permanent Representatives of Kenya to the United Nations Permanent Delegates of Kenya to UNESCO Place of death missing Kenyan novelists Kenyan nurses Kenyan women novelists 20th-century novelists 20th-century women writers 20th-century Kenyan women politicians 20th-century Kenyan politicians Women ambassadors Kenyan radio presenters Kenyan women radio presenters