A comparative study of the legal profession in East Africa

Abstract

When Lord Denning made his Report on Legal Education in Africa in 1961, there were very few African lawyers in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. During the 1960's the number of African lawyers in these countries rapidly increased. The public sector has been largely Africanized, but the private sector of the profession remains predominantly non-African. The 1970's will see an even more rapid increase in the number of African lawyers.5 This increase and the departure of numerous non-African lawyers, will bring about almost complete Africanization of the profession by 1980.