Philip Leakey
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Philip Leakey (born 21 June 1949 in Nairobi) is a former Kenyan politician. He was the first White member of the Kenyan Parliament since independence.[1]
Career
Leakey represented the KANU party led by then president Daniel Arap Moi. He was an MP of Langata Constituency from 1979 [2] and served as a cabinet minister for a short stint. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 1992 Kenyan general elections, the first multiparty elections in Kenya, when Raila Odinga won the Langata seat.[3]
Together with his wife Katy Leakey, he runs the Leakey Collection, a company exporting products made by Maasai handicrafts.
His parents are Louis and Mary Leakey, both paleontologists. Philip is brother to Richard and Jonathan Leakey, and half-brother to Colin Leakey. He has three children with his second wife, Valerie Fraser Leakey. He was educated at Lenana School, Nairobi (formerly the Duke of York School).
Position in the Leakey family
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References
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- ↑ Time, November 19, 1979: Arap Moi Again
- ↑ Kenya Times, December 11, 2005: Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- Leakey family
- Kenyan people of British descent
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- Kenya African National Union politicians
- Members of the National Assembly (Kenya)
- Government ministers of Kenya
- White Kenyan people
- People educated at Leighton Park School
- Alumni of Lenana School