Wambui Otieno
Politician, Author
1936 – 2011
Who was Wambui Otieno?
Virginia Wambui Otieno was a woman who rose to prominence due to her controversial legal fight between her and her husbands clan over the right to bury her husband 1987. The case was an unprecedented balance between customary laws; inter tribal marriage and modern-day 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.
Wambui Otieno is sister to Kenya's former foreign Minister, Dr Munyua Waiyaki. Wambui Otieno died on August 30, 2011.
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- Born
- 1936
- Spouses
- Silvano Melea Otieno
(1963 - )
- Silvano Melea Otieno
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 30, 2011
Nairobi
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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