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Mbiti defended African religion, but was not feted

John Samuel Mbiti (pictured), born in Mulango, Eastern Kenya on November 30, 1931, died on October 6. He was cremated in Burgdorf, Switzerland, 128 years after the death of Samuel Ajay Crowther in Nigeria in December 1891.

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