Juliane Okot Bitek
Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer and academic · Uganda · On the map · Writers · Born 1975 · age 51
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, also known as Juliane Okot Bitek, is a Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer and academic, who lives, studies and works in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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She is perhaps best-known for her poetry book 100 Days, a reflection on the 100-day 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu people were killed. She has been a contributor to several anthologies, including in 2019 New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, edited by Margaret Busby.
