| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-300) and index. |
| Contents |
The house at the edge of the dark -- The lawyer -- The collar and the gun -- Oaths -- The dictator -- The clashes -- The terrible place -- The raid -- Lolgorien -- The tribunal -- The girls -- We will all be sorted out -- The bureau -- Manic depression -- The verdict -- The end of the time of Moi -- The inquest -- The labyrinth with no center. |
| Summary |
When an obscure American missionary named John Kaiser denounced the Kenyan regime at a public tribunal, he became an improbable icon to a country struggling to escape one of Africa's longest-reigning despots. A larger-than-life former paratrooper who stalked the savanna with his hunting rifle, as well as a vocal champion for landless refugees and abused girls, Kaiser was rife with dualities: the healer and the hunter, the collar and the gun, the man of obedience who rebelled against authority. Kaiser was seen as reckless by his church, particularly in his campaign to bring Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi before the Hague. Few knew that he suffered from manic depression, a condition inextricable from his outsized courage, but one that caused periods of crippling despair. When Kaiser was found dead, an FBI investigation--pointing to what the agency called a history of mental illness--ruled it a suicide. Kenyans were sure he had been murdered. In a post-Moi Kenya, it would fall to attorney Charles Mbuthi Gathenji, a dissident and the son of a man himself murdered for his beliefs, to unravel what had really happed to Kaiser. -- Jacket, p. [2]. |
| Subject |
Kaiser, John Anthony, 1932-2000 -- Death and burial.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Kenya.
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1978-2002.
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 2002-
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Political atrocities -- Kenya.
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Christianity and politics -- Kenya.
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| ISBN |
9780393077421 hardcover $27.95 |
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039307742X hardcover |
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