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Africa judges seek to spark social change

Some of the judges who gathered in Nairobi for the 2024 Africa Judges & Jurists Forum (AJJF). [Courtesy, AJIF Meta]

In hallowed corners of their wood-panelled courtrooms, these men and women are small gods whose sighs, coughs or smiles is powerful enough to permanently alter one's fate under the sun.

In their antique, "slightly ridiculous" wigs and near-funerary robes, they invoke immortal chill among court users, while also according to solemnity to the process of administering justice.

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