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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...
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