95% of Kenyan lawyers wouldn’t last a single month in the U.S. or Canada, where law is not about theatrics, tribal connections, or media muscle , it’s about competence, credibility, and consequences. And that’s exactly why the likes of Makau Mutua, Sylvia Kang’ara Abdikadir, and others have built careers hiding in lecture halls instead of stepping into courtrooms.
Because they know the bar exam would break them, and real practice would expose them.
Nobody cares that you’re “teaching” law at a university in America if you’ve never filed a motion, won a trial, or defended a client under actual legal fire. Theory without practice is academic masturbation ; self-indulgent, pointless, and irrelevant to the real world.