Juliane Okot Bitek

Juliane Okot Bitek (born 1966), also known as Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, is a Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer and academic, who lives, studies and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 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. Provided by Wikipedia