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Unity Dow
judge, activist
Unity Dow is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She has written four novels, focusing on the tension between Western and traditional African values, gender issues, and issues of global poverty. She was the first woman to serve on Botswana’s High Court, and in 2010 she was sworn in as justice of the Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya.