Word: leakey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Where Mary Leakey found the skull of a human ancestor who lived 1.8 million years...
...Leakey promises to improve services, tackle corruption and balance the country's books in the process. "There is cynicism that the bad guys are still in power, but they're not in power," he says. "Delivery of service is now in the hands of the professionals." To help Leakey with the colossal task ahead, Moi has created a kind of shadow ministry by appointing a small team of technocrats as permanent secretaries. As the latest episode in the two-man soap opera unfolds, Leakey and Moi insist their struggles are behind them. "I have little doubt that there will...
...Leakey seems to thrive on such tough times. For years he kept a terminal kidney disease secret from everyone but his doctors and wife Meave, until he finally agreed to a lifesaving kidney transplant from his estranged younger brother Philip, a former KANU member of Parliament. In 1993, a single-engine Cessna that Leakey was piloting lost power--many believe it was a result of sabotage--and crash-landed. He lost both legs below the knee but within three weeks was walking again with the help of artificial limbs. "Some people deteriorate under pressure; some people get exhilarated," Leakey said...
...facto leader of what Moi calls Kenya's recovery strategy is Leakey's biggest challenge yet. Kenya was once one of the most successful developing countries in Africa. But its economy and image have deteriorated over the past decade--not in an explosion of violence or at the hands of a military regime, as in other parts of the continent, but through the pathetic slow drip of corruption and inefficiency...
Despite grumblings from within the public-service sector and from some M.P.s--an opposition politician said the appointment was "tantamount to handing the country's leadership back to the British"--most Kenyans seem to respect Leakey. "Race is not an issue," says Peter Kimuyu, acting head of the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research. "It doesn't matter who gives us results as long as we get them...