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A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour - Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (Hardcover)
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A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour - Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (Hardcover)
Series: African Articulations
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Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role
of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has
been reported and investigated. Julie Ann Ward was a British
tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's
Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have
been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers,
stillat large, were hotly contested in the media. Many theories
emerged as to how and why she died, generating three trials,
several "true crime" books, and much speculation and rumour. At the
core of Musila's study are thefollowing questions: why would this
young woman's death be the subject of such strong contestations of
ideas and multiple truths? And what does this reveal about cultural
productions of truth and knowledge in Kenya and Britain,
particularly in the light of the responses to her disappearance of
the Kenyan police, the British Foreign Office, and the British High
Commission in Nairobi. Building on existing scholarship on African
history, narrative, gender and postcolonial studies, the author
reveals how the Julie Ward murder and its attendant discourses
offer insights into the journeys of ideas, and how these traverse
the porous boundaries of the relationship between Kenya and
Britain, and, by extension, Africa and the Global North. Grace A.
Musila is a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch
University, South Africa
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