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Prayers ‘saved’ Leakey, who believed there was no God

A select group of Christians and Muslims were mobilised from all corners of the country to go for a vigil dubbed “Richard Leakey Prayers”. [File, Standard]

As the man who believed there was no God writhed in pain at St Thomas Hospital in England in July 1979, there was a wave of insurrection back at his office in Nairobi.

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