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Virginia Wambui Otieno was a woman who rose to prominence due to her controversial legal fight between her and her husbands (SM Otieno) clan over the right to bury her husband 1987. The case was an unprecedented balance between customary laws; inter tribal marriage and modern-day (civil) marriage. Hers was the most protracted legal case in Kenya's history that saw the court lean towards culture than modern-day marriage, when the burial rights were awarded to the husband’s clan. The ruling gaped a big whole over the women rights in the country.〔Stamp, Patricia. "Burying Otieno: The politics of gender and ethnicity in Kenya." Signs 16.4 (1991): 808-845.〕 Wambui Otieno is sister to Kenya's former foreign Minister, Dr Munyua Waiyaki. Wambui Otieno died on August 30, 2011. == Mau Mau freedom fighter == She published an autobiography titled "Mau Mau Daughter: A Life History". She had had 3 children while working as a Mau Mau freedom fighter. She was arrested for her involvement in mobilizing in the women's wing of the Mau Mau's riots. Towards the end of the State of Emergency, the British colonial state arrested her and sent her to a detention camp on the coast.〔Mau Mau's Daughter, A Life History, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998, p.5〕 In the years following Mau Mau, Wambui met and married S.M. Otieno, a prominent Luo lawyer. Together they produced one of the most successful law firms in post-colonial Kenya. Her daughter is Gladwell Otieno, former director of TI Kenya (Transparency International) and director of "AFRICOG" African Center of open Governance. Wambui Otieno was one of the first women to run for elected office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wambui Otieno」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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