PREMIUM Carole Argwings-Kodhek: Daughter who carried her father’s flame At the time of her death last week, Carole Argwings-Kodhek was writing her father's biography, Mau Mau Lawyer. News Just now Listen

A white mother and an African father had produced a child whom the colonial system could classify as Black when it wished to deny her care.

As the daughter of an African father and an Irish mother, Carole disliked the rigid categories imposed on biracial people.

She was a gifted editor, a proud mother, a keeper of memory and a woman who understood that integrity sometimes requires one to walk away, stand alone or speak when silence would be safer.