She
was a granddaughter of the Kikuyu Paramount Senior Chief Waiyaki wa
Hinga who was buried alive by the British in 1892 for his anti-colonial
stand. She too would be a rebel, first against the British for which she
would pay with several years in detention, and then against independent
Kenya’s political class and African convention. She married a Luo
lawyer, S.M. Otieno, and when he died she fought a long unsuccessful
court battle to have him buried in their home near Nairobi rather than
amongst his people in Luoland. Years later when she was 67 years old,
she would choose to marry a 25-year old man, much to the consternation
of family and friend
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