A well-known man of law and former justice of the court, Judge Damian Zefrin Lubuva is an alumnus of the University of Dar es Salaam, of the graduating class of 1966. He was born on 21st September, 1940 in the village of Haubi in Kondoa district of Dodoma region. This was the time of colonial rule in what was then British Tanganyika. He began primary education at the age of nine, in 1949, at Kuta district primary school, from where, after 1952, he moved to middle school at St. Gabriel Catholic Kondoa from 1953 to 1956. In 1957 he moved on to Form I (then Standard 9) of secondary education at St. Francis School in Pugu in Dar es Salaam in 1957. This was a full stretch of six years of secondary education at the same school well until Form VI in 1962. With an exemplary record of performance, in 1966, Damian secured a place at the only university institution then¾University College Dar es Salaam (UCD) of the University of East Africa, for degree studies in law. He was one of the fw students in that small class of students of their cohort¾including himself, Barnabas Samatta, Joe Kanywanyi, Joseph Warioba and Arthur Peter Mutharika of Malawi [lately President of Malawi, May 2014-June 2020].