Nine African countries have a combined population of over 114 million people, and yet between them they only have 2,550 lawyers—the same number of lawyers that practice in the state of Vermont, which has a population of about 600,000 people.52 The actual availability of lawyers to common citizens in Africa is even worse than these numbers indicate because most Africans still live in rural areas and overwhelmingly the lawyers are in distant cities. In fact, in Tanzania, with 42 million people, most of the country’s 21 regions don’t have any lawyers; in Uganda, lawyers can be found in only nine
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