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Richard Leakey: the atheist who lost kidney, legs, bit of liver but never gave up

President Daniel arap Moi and Richard: The government could fire and re-hire the strong-willed paleoanthropologist. [Archives, Standard]

For a man who never believed in God, death on a Sunday when most Christians worship their creator could not have been more ironic.

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