The Black Bar By Paul Mwangi

Indeed, when Shakespeare wrote in Henry V1 “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”, it was a testimony to the fact that where lawyers honestly discharge their duty to society, they guard against lawlessness and become the single most principal assurance of the “Rule of Law”.

Safeguarding the Rule of Law is one of the areas where Kenya has performed badly, giving way to impunity and utter chaos and left the weak and the poor absolutely at the mercy of the rich and the powerful. “The Black Bar” looks at this history and exposes how lawyers in Kenya have in history been accessories to the derogation of the rule of law.