As an article recently observed, history will remember Raila Amolo Odinga not as the man who ruled Kenya, but as the man who forced it to change.
The son of nationalist and pan-Africanist Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s first vice-president and an eternal dissenter, Raila inherited a peculiar destiny—the burden of an unfinished struggle. He came from a house that birthed dreams of freedom but never quite touched the crown.
