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Prof Mbiti: The man who translated Bible from English to Kamba dies aged 88

Professor John Mbiti, Kenyan scholar of religion and African Christianity. He died in Switzerland on Sunday 6.[Photo Courtesy]

The Kenyan academic fraternity is in a mourning mood following the demise of scholar, theologian and a teacher Professor John Mbiti, who breathed his last yesterday in Switzerland where he was hospitalised.

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