Draft:Ghosts of Kanungu

Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa is a book about the cult the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), notorious for the deaths of hundreds of its members in what was alternatively described as mass suicide or mass murder in 2000. The book was written by Richard Vokes and published by Fountain Publishers in 2009. The book analyzes the MRTC in the context of the wider religious background of Uganda, and attempts to show what lead to the deaths.

The book received a positive reception, with reviewers praising it for its writing quality and. Some minor criticisms were levied at the book's clarity and open-ended nature.

Background
Richard Vokes is

The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a millenialist religious movement

In March 2000, several hundred corpses were found in a burnt building on one of the group's compounds. Initially, it was believed that they had died in a mass suicide, but the discovery of several hundred more bodies in mass graves at the group's other locations made later investigators believe it was possibly mass murder.

Synopsis
Ghosts of Kanungu is divided into nine sections.

The first half of the book gives a historical background.

Reception
The book received

writing

"compelling"

describing it as "admirably mix[ing] history, ethnography and a sense of fundamental continuities".

One reviewer complained that the book was unclear in several respects about what had happened and what had lead to it, arguing that "if an author writes a murder mystery, he or she should expect the reader to want more answers than this provocative book provides."