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This week forty-five ago, a special visitor came to Kenya. He was South African-born Dr Christian Bernard, a world-famous heart surgeon who performed the world's first-ever successful heart transplant in the early 1970s.
He came at the invitation of then-Attorney General Charles Njonjo. At the time Kenya didn't allow visits to or from then apartheid South Africa. But somehow Njonjo managed to facilitate one by his unwanted guest.
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