Anyone can interview Charles Kanjama, the newly elected President of the Law Society of Kenya. His sentences arrive fully formed, tied with a bow. You won't need to garnish the journey of his content or lend it depth. All you have to do is show up with a recorder. Better if it is raining lightly outside, as it did during this interview, and Kanjama will do the rest of the storytelling.
The first thing you notice is how he speaks. He speaks in big, unhurried chunks. Not the nervous chunkiness of a man who has overprepared, but the steady heft of someone who has spent a long time thinking about who he is and what he is doing here. A sentence from him can carry the weight of a paragraph. A paragraph can feel like a chapter. You sit across from him and realise, after about 10 minutes, that you are not really interviewing him. You are just present while he thinks out loud.
