# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bethwell-allan-ogot
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:47:19.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bethwell-allan-ogot"
name: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
slug: "bethwell-allan-ogot"
description: "Bethwell Allan Ogot was a Kenyan historian and academic who specialised in African history, research methods, and theory. One of his works started by saying that \"to tell the story of a past so as to portray an inevitable destiny is, for humankind, a need as universal as tool-making. To that extent, we may say that a human being is, by nature, historicus\"."
tagline: "Kenyan historian (1929-2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-08-03"
deathDate: "2025-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.84
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           7.678798666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16714206/"
    handle:    "nm16714206"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بيثويل آلان اوجوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot"
    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot"
    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%AA'%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95%D7%98"
    title: "בת'וול אוגוט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot"
    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot"
    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot"
    title: "Bethwell Allan Ogot"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2900101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump