This archive report was first published on 21 September 2019.
On September 20, 2019, Harrison Mumia, chairman of Atheist in Kenya, shared the devastating news of his father's passing on social media.
According to Mr. Mumia, his father had been suffering from stage four prostate cancer for the past year, a diagnosis that had left him with little hope for recovery.
"My dad has been suffering from prostate cancer for the last one year. He was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. I had come to accept it that my dad was having a disease that was terminal," Mr. Mumia said in a phone interview with Nairobi News.
Despite his father's strong Christian background, Mr. Mumia revealed that his father had always treated him with kindness and respect, even after he denounced his faith to become an atheist.
"When my parents knew that I was an atheist, of course they were concerned because they come from a very strong Christian background. There was a time I had a conversation with him and he told me there has to be a supernatural being that things do not just happen. We used to urge about the existence of God," Mr. Mumia explained.
