These interests also help explain why Kenya’s lawyers were at the forefront of protests against the corruption of President Daniel Arap Moi’s regime in the early 1990’s, but much less visible in the eruption of tribal violence this past year. Corruption corrodes the possibility of making a living through the law, which becomes a preserve of the rich.
这些利益还可以说明为什么肯尼亚的律师在上世纪90年代初抗议丹尼尔·阿拉普·莫伊政府腐败的时候走在最前沿，而在去年爆发的部落暴力事件中却不怎么看得到。腐败会损害通过法律谋生的机会，使之成为富人的禁脔。与此相对，在种族冲突造成的危机中，律师的利益就没那么显眼了。