Kavetsa Adagala

Adagala was from the Maragoli ethnic group, the daughter of Quaker educator Solomon Adagala and Doris Adagala.^[1][2] One of her brothers, Seth Adagala, was the first African director of the Kenya National Theatre.^[3][4]

Adagala was a lecturer in the literature department at the University of Nairobi,^[5][6] and co-edited a textbook, Kenyan Oral Narratives (1985).^[7] She ran on the Kanu ticket for a seat in Kenya's parliament in 1997,^[8] but did not win. She was one of the seven female members^[9] of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, and the Bomas Constitutional Conference.^[10]

Adagala died at home, from complications of diabetes, in August 2014, at the age of 67.^[11]

• Language and literature in primary schools: Lulogooli ne tsing'ano tsya valogooli (1979)^[12]
• "The Impact of Development on Women in Kenya" (1982, with Priscilla Kariuki and Patricia Bifani)^[13]
• "Kenya Before the Conference" (1985)^[14]
• Women in the Liberation of Mother Africa (1985)^[15]
• "Wanja of Petals of Blood: The woman question and imperialism in Kenya" (1985)^[16]
• Self-employed Women in the Peri-urban Setting: Petty Traders in Nairobi (1985, with Patricia Bifani)^[17]
• Kenyan Oral Narratives: A Selection (1985, 1994; textbook, edited with Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira)^[7]
• "Gender Issues in the Co-operative Movement" (1987)^[18]