Earlier this month, Makau Mutua was named dean of the University at Buffalo Law School. His experiences as a young man, which he describes today as blessings of a sort, set the course of his life purpose. As a teenage political dissident, Mutua fled his native Kenya during the violent final years of the Daniel arap Moi regime. A few years later, with $40 in his pocket, Mutua made his way from Dar es Salaam to Boston to Cambridge, Mass., where he worked his way through Harvard Law School as a night watchman.
May 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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As a teenage political dissident, Makau W. Mutua fled his native Kenya during the violent final years of the Daniel arap Moi regime and lived to tell the story, largely due to the kindness of strangers in neighboring Tanzania.
A few years later, in 1984, as an aspiring lawyer with $40 in his pocket, Mutua made his way from Dar es Salaam to Boston and then to Cambridge, Mass., where he worked his way through Harvard Law School as a night watchman.
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