Faith In Our Shared Humanity

An advocate of the High Court of Kenya since 2012, Spencer West Commercial Partner Peter Kamero regularly puts his Christian faith into action as a volunteer intervening to address miscarriages of justice.

It all started at a bus top when distinguished Kenyan lawyer Peter Kamero's ambitions were just that: ambitions. His academic successes, and the personal qualities that lay behind them, were clear for all to see. Except for a certain policeman...

Peter, like many African teenagers, was shooting pool while waiting for a bus, blending in, minding his own business, until the door burst open and a group of angry police began to arrest everyone in the pool hall. Everyone. In the course of putting the young people in a van, Peter, a high school student at the time, mustered the courage to speak up. Calmly but firmly, he tried to reason with the officers, explaining, "I'm just a student. I haven't done anything wrong." His argument, grounded in a belief that fairness