Struggle Over Burial of Otieno in Kenya

The outcome of the five-month legal struggle was the burial of Otieno "not on his Ngong farm in the Nairobi suburbs but rather in the land of his kinsmen at Nyamila village" (11).

The authors have undertaken their examination of this case because "the case elaborated itself as a laboratory for the study of the production of history and the sociology of power in contemporary Africa" (12).

Even more specifically, the authors focus on "the crucial role of the courtroom contest in the very constitution of ideas concerning the 'modern' and the 'traditional' in Kenyan life" (15).

The authors are thorough in examining every detail of the legal struggle itself, but those details compose only the raw material of their investigation. They are not aiming to determine who is right or wrong in that struggle, but rather to determine the process whereby history itself is produced. They recognize that in such a complex case as Otieno's, th

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