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Life Time Years England africa

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

- Louis Leakey

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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

- Louis Leakey

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We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

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Age Time First

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

- Louis Leakey

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People

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

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Popular People

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

- Louis Leakey

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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

- Louis Leakey

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