Abstract
In 1987 a Kenyan widow was taken to court by her dead husband's family in a sensational contest over the burial of his remains. Wambui Otieno, the wife of a prominent criminal lawyer, S. M. Otieno, became the eye of a storm about customary law, women's rights, and intertribal marriages following the lawyer's death intestate in December 1986. Wambui is a member of the Kikuyu ethnic group; Otieno was a Luo. Otieno's clan, Umira Kager, blocked the widow's plans to bury her husband in Nairobi, the home where he
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