Grace Akello

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Grace Akello

Dinah Grace Akello (born 1950 ) is a Ugandan poet , folklorist and politician . She has been the Ugandan ambassador to India since 2017

Private life

Dinah Grace Akello comes from the Iteso people and was born near Soroti in eastern Uganda. She studied social administration and social work at Makerere University in Kampala . In 1979 she fled the regime of Idi Amin into exile in Tanzania . In 1983 Akello married Hugh Mason, they have four sons and live in Kenya .

Professional activities

She worked in Kenya and Tanzania as a magazine editor . After a trip to England in the 1980s, she became assistant editor in the Commonwealth Secretariat . She held this position from 1983 to 1990.

Political activity

In 1990 Akello returned to Uganda and formed a commission to deal with the expulsion and killing of Iteso during the Amin regime. The commission lasted until 1996. In 1996 Akello became a member of the Ugandan Parliament , and in 1999 she was appointed Minister for Gender , Labor and Social Affairs.

From 1999 to 2003 she was Minister for Microfinance Initiatives , after which she headed the Ministry for Northern Uganda until she lost her post in 2006. In March 2014, while serving as Uganda's High Commissioner in Malta , Akello said that the controversy over criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda had "lost all proportion ". After a stint as ambassador in Italy, Akello has been heading the Ugandan representation in New Delhi since 2017 .

reception

In 1992 her poem »Encounter« from the My Barren Song collection was included in Margaret Busby's anthology Daughters of Africa , in which the most important women authors of African origin are represented.

Works

  • My ingot song . Dar es Salam, Tanzania: Eastern African Publications, 1979.
  • Iteso Thought Patterns in Tales . Dar es Salaam University Press, 1981.
  • Self Twice-Removed: Ugandan Woman . London: Change International Reports, 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Akello, Grace in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing , Marie Miller (Author), Jane Eldridge (Ed.), Routledge , 2001, ISBN 0415159806
  2. ↑ https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1468071/grace-akello-uganda-ambassador-india
  3. ↑ https://newdelhi.mofa.go.ug/data-smenu-55-Ambassador-Grace-Akello.html
  4. ↑ a b c d Sacrificial love helped bring peace to Uganda . In: Pompey Chimes , February 2007, pp. 8–9. Retrieved November 19, 2016. 
  5. ↑ 2020 Africa Conference - Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 . Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Patrick Cooke: 'Too much fuss' over Uganda anti-gay laws . March 7, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Ugandisches_Parlament_ber%C3%A4t_%C3%BCber_Gesetz_zur_Bestrafung_von_Homosexualit%C3%A4t
  8. ^ The Ambassador . Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  9. ^ "Encounter" in Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present , Margaret Busby , Jonathan Cape , London, 1992, ISBN 9780224035927
personal data
SURNAME Akello, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akello, Dinah Grace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ugandan poet, folklorist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950