Law Reports of Kenya


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Law Reports - East Africa Protectorate


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Vol. 1 contains cases determined by the High Court at Mombasa, the Appeal Court at Zanzibar and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from that court; v. 2-8 contain cases determined by the High Court of East Africa, the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa, and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from that court.







Law Reports - Colony and Protectorate of Kenya


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Vol. 1 contains cases determined by the High Court of Mombasa, and by the Appeal Court at Zanzibar, and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from that Court. Vols. 2-8 contain cases determined by the High Court of East Africa, the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa, and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Appeal from that Court. Vols. 9-29 contain cases determined by the Supreme Court of Kenya Colony and Protectorate; vols. 9-15 contain also cases determined by the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa, and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from that court.







Imperial Justice


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This is a vital study of the motivations of the British Imperial Appeal Courts and the tensions between the demands of imperial law and justice and those of African law and custom. Examining the central role of the Privy Council and the Courts, it reveals the impact of the colonized peoples in shaping the processes and outcomes of imperial justice.




Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955


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Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.