The Risks of Knowledge

Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990

By: David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo

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Among the probes was an extensive 1990 inquiry organized by a New Scotland Yard team invited to Kenya by the government, as well as an open public commission of inquiry appointed by President Daniel arap Moi. The commission ran for seventeen months in 1990-91 before the president shut it down. International and Kenyan unrest over Ouko's brutal death brought increasing attention to corruption and violence associated with the Moi government, leading in late 1991 to multiparty politics and in December 2002 to the elections that ended the Moi era. This powerfully argued book raises important issues about the production of knowledge and the politics of memory that will interest a large interdisciplinary audience. An inquiry into how facts are created and knowledge produced, The Risks of Knowledge pursues a ghastly murder into the normally unseen worlds of international business wheeling and dealing, into the rural "squireocracy" of western Kenya, and into the bureaucratic routines of Kenya's government. In this, their third coauthored study of Kenya, the authors show how these unfinished investigations are about much more than the solution to the murder of a distinguished Kenyan statesman and world citizen.

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"A historical investigation of the highest caliber."
"In telling the story of (Ouko's) death, Cohen and Odhiambo draw upon a rich array of official reports and journalistic investigations into the crime. With careful research and insightful presentation, Cohen and Odhiambo do not explicitly solve this 'who-dunnit', but they do tease out a multiplicity of themes about Kenya's recent political past."

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Prolegomenon : Robert Ouko, a life and a death
Investigating a death in Kenya	p. 33
In a nation of white cars	p. 46
Robert Ouko's pain	p. 70
The note	p. 90
Readers of the found remains	p. 117
"Why, Mr. President?"	p. 134
No stone unturned	p. 158
Ouko : a biography of African nationalism	p. 172
Contradictions of development	p. 193
The negotiation of a state of mind	p. 220
"A white car" becomes a truth	p. 246
Conclusion : the risks of knowledge	p. 258
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