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Mutua: Man with sharp pen that knows no friend or foe

NASA Leaders Hon. Raila Odinga listens to Prof. Makau Mutua as Kalonzo Musyoka and Wavinya Ndeti look on during the opening of Kitui Villa Hotel, owned by Prof. Makau Mutua, Later they addressed a Rally at Kitui Bus Park. [Dennis Kavisu, Standard]

In William Shakespeare’s last work, Comedy of Errors, Antipholus of Syracuse poses a philosophical question on why time is such a niggard of hair, being as it is, so plentiful an excrement.

The answer Dromio of Syracuse offers wraps it up for law Prof Makau Mutua who was once in his youth bedecked with flowing locks: ““Because it is a blessing he has bestowed on beasts; and what he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.”

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