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Two deaths define fame and how we celebrate life

Every year, the school captain in a prominent Kenyan school reads Ecclesiasticus 44 about praising famous men as well as those who, despite being honourable, are forgotten as if they had never been. They capture public imagination either because of what they did prior to death or because of the consequences of their particular death.

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