Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of kno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Series: | African studies
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism : Ukambani in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Understanding Uoi, Uwe, and Kithitu in Ukambani
- The "cosmology" of the colonial state
- The Wakamba witch trials : a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya
- Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka
- The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era Machakos
- Cleansing Ukambani witches
- Epilogue