Lessons from former AG who continues to influence in death as in life

Kenya's second attorney general James Boro Karugu. [File, Standard]

Some heroes are larger-than-life characters. Others are quiet and unassuming.

Kenya's second attorney general James Boro Karugu was the latter type. Yet his impact on society at home and abroad is no less than that of the most visible sort.

Karugu's story is the quintessential rags-to-riches one. His first interaction with law was as a barefoot boy where he sat in the public gallery of the High Court of Kenya. So profound was that encounter that he later wrote of it saying, "Just like few of us will experience love at first sight, few will experience passion and meaning at first experience."