This book has been written on the premise that the mode of coping with death of virtually all African ethnic communities has taken proportions and turns that are neither cultural, scriptural, nor necessary. Current rites are complicated, time-consuming, expensive, and are leaving most families and their neighbors impoverished. They have been extremely commercialized and a large number of Africans do not have resources to bury their dead the ""modern"" way. Were the Agikuyu (read: Africans) to curb numerous funeral demands which they deem necessary and ""customary,"" when in actual fact they...