Willy Mutunga speaks in very long-legged and ambitious paragraphs. They grow like dough in an oven, delicious in texture and often emitting the sweet aroma of intelligence and knowledge. Words come easy to him, in torrent, and if they weren’t captivating, one would even describe them as gluttonous.
A man with his formidable resume needs every word he can get to illustrate those experiences. He was the first indigenous Kenyan to teach constitutional law at the University of Nairobi. During his tenure at the university, he was detained for 16 months for his activism before exiling in Canada and returning to join the democratic struggle. He has served in many civil society organisations, including the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Law Society of Kenya, where he was chairman.
