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Bethwell Allan Ogot Quotes

Kenyan historian (1929-2025)

(3 August 1929 – 30 January 2025) was a historian from Kenya. He specialised in African history, research methods and theory.

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Alternative Names: Bethwell A.Ogot • B.A. Ogot

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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.

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