For Nowrojee, activism was the duty of a lawyer

“The Gen Z must understand power, where it comes from and who operates it,” That was the last bit of advice that Pheroze Nowrojee gave amidst the agitation by the young people in Kenya against bad governance.

The senior counsel’s life-long passion for human rights and activism was embedded in wide reading and understanding of the past reform and civil rights agitations in other parts of the world, from Mahatma Gandhi’s work to the Martin Luther King Jnr’s August 28, 1963, march on Washington for jobs and freedom to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.