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The Leakey family has long been an important part of Kenyan society. Richard is as stubborn and willful as the rest of his clan, which makes this memoir (not really complete enough to be an autobiography) of his young days and beginnings in politics a history of Kenya's often troubled and yet always entertaining past as well. Leakey is arrogant, pretentious, and undeniably intelligent and mainly forthright. His love for Kenya makes him bearable and the book is witty, full of Kenyan lore and name
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