| You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya Contributor(s): Goffard, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 039307742X ISBN-13: 9780393077421 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - History | Africa - East - History | Africa - West |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2011029509 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.41" W x 9.49" (1.16 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - East Africa - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Whether gunning down a warthog, raising the beams he'd hewn himself for a new church, or standing up for landless refugees and abused girls, Father John Kaiser was a figure larger than life. He was fierce in his commitments, devoted to the poor and displaced, and fearless--what some would call reckless--in the pursuit of justice. For this he was beloved by his parishioners, seen as a loose cannon by his superiors in the church, and despised by Kenya's strongmen under the tyrannical leadership of Daniel arap Moi. When Kaiser was discovered dead on a remote roadside in the bush, the FBI ruled it a suicide. Kenyans were sure he'd been murdered. In a new Kenya, post-Moi, it would fall to Charles Mbuthi Gathenji, a prominent dissident and the son of a man himself murdered for his beliefs, to find out what really happened to Father John Kaiser. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goffard, Christopher: - Christopher Goffard writes for the Los Angeles Times and lives in Southern California. |