PHD in African Studies Sample 1st Paragraph

I obtained my LLB in my home country, Ethiopia and completed my LLM at Howard University. It is perhaps ironic that I have come to truly love Africa the most, and to have profound hope for her, only as a result of coming to America and completing my LLM at Howard. My short term professional dream is to be a university professor in my home country. I see your particularly distinguished PHD program in African Studies at XXXX University as the best fit for my interests given your thoroughgoing and interdisciplinary focus on development and public policy. My heart is back in Ethiopia and I want to return well prepared for my maximum contribution. Development Studies are still in their infancy in Africa and there is much work to be done. After teaching in Ethiopia for a few years, I hope to move on and become engaged with a regional organization such as the African Union, always working on development issues and making good use of my legal background.