REVIEW:
'The authors of this intriguing account offer a chorus of conflicting voices and invite readers to draw their own conclusions.' - Foreign Affairs '... the controversy over this Kenyan's burial fascinates us because it speaks to many of the thorniest issues confronting Africans today...' - Journal of Modern African Studies

CONTENTS:
One body, two funerals
- orations of the dead
- silences of the living
- living bodies and their knowledge
- the productions of culture
- the constitution of an African state
- Owino Misiani's lamentation, 1987.