Risks of Knowledge : Investigations into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990

Prolegomenon: Robert Ouko, a Life and a Death ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1(1) A Death Reported 1(2) Dead Bodies in Kenya 3(4) A New Habitus 7(1) The State 8(4) The Ouko Dossier 12(4) Indeterminacies 16(4) Economies of Knowledge 20(4) Social Histories 24(8) States of Loss 32(1) Investigating a Death in Kenya 33(13) Locks and Keys 39(4) Commissions 43(3) In a Nation of White Cars 46(24) Kenyans and Their Women 47(1) Kenyans and Their Man 48(2) White Cars, Gum Boots, and Multiparty Democracy 50(3) Hearing Selina Speak 53(14) The Headlining of Selina 67(3) Robert Ouko's Pain 70(20) A State of Mind in Kenya 72(1) ``These are the things that are killing me'' 73(5) Last Days 78(4) Prayers for the Oukos 82(6) Mandela's Release 88(2) The Note 90(27) An Inventory of Mbajah's Statements 92(2) Troon and Mbajah 94(1) A Marriage Game 95(4) Mbajah: Reader and Author 99(8) Papers Seen and Unseen 107(8) The Dramaturgy of Incarceration 115(2) Readers of the Found Remains 117(17) Remains of the Dead 118(5) The Force of Difference 123(2) The Temporal Work of a First Observation 125(5) The Shifting Stage 130(4) ``Why, Mr. President?'' 134(24) ``J'accuse!'' 136(1) Husband and Wife 137(2) The Author Anguka 139(1) Two Governmental Systems 140(3) Indispensability and Dispensability 143(3) A Terrifying Triangle 146(3) The Presence of Anguka 149(9) No Stone Unturned 158(14) Ouko: A Biography of African Nationalism 172(21) Triumphal Beginnings and False Starts 173(4) Lions in Winter 177(4) The Sticky Thing Called Development 181(2) Molasses 183(5) The Second International Sphere 188(5) Contradictions of Development 193(27) Revival 195(4) Roman Holidays 199(5) Molasses Narratives 204(7) Death by Molasses 211(7) ``Cleaned his slate'' 218(2) The Negotiation of a State of Mind 220(26) Dramaturgical Moments 222(3) A Sister's Brief 225(6) Last Conversations 231(3) A Church in Kenya 234(8) The Possibility of Ouko 242(4) ``A White Car'' Becomes a Truth 246(12) Authentic Voices 250(4) Work of Truth, Truth of Work 254(4) Conclusion The Risks of Knowledge 258(15) Epistemologies 259(2) Producing Knowledge 261(6) The Pain of Others 267(3) The Excision of Ouko 270(3) Notes 273(44) Bibliography 317(16) Index 333