I came of age as a law student in the long shadow of the Moi era, when fear was ambient and courage was a scarce, almost reckless resource. In those years, we learned the law not only from books but from whispered names, men and women who showed up when showing up carried consequences. Pheroze […]
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The Baluch of East Africa
Baluch settlements on Makadara Road, Mombasa, 1920 They journeyed in the fabled dhows; white crescent sails blown by ocean winds, three hundred years ago, as soldiers of fortune, to the east coast of Africa; to build an empire for the Sultan Of Oman who had conquered their homeland on south coastal fringes of the Persian empire, and […]
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