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The Leakeys are Kenya’s foremost anthropological family, whose story began with missionaries Canon Harry and Mary Leakey settling in Kabete where son Louis Leakey was born in 1903. Canon ‘Giteru’ (meaning goatee) translated the Bible into Kikuyu as wife Mary started a girl’s school, today Mary Leakey Girls High School.
Giteru died in 1940 and was buried at the All Saints Cathedral in Limuru. Three generations of this family has been immortalised in many ways, as Virginia Morell notes in Ancestral Passions, her 1995 bio of The Leakeys.
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