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Oginga Odinga

1911 – 1994 Kenyan first vice-president of Kenya, opposition leader

Kenya's first vice-president who broke with Kenyatta and led the opposition, author of Not Yet Uhuru.

Affiliations
Kenya African National Union, Kenya People's Union, FORD

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a Luo businessman and nationalist who became independent Kenya's first vice-president. He grew estranged from Kenyatta over land, corruption, and the country's pro-Western, capitalist direction, and in 1966 left to found the socialist opposition Kenya People's Union, after which he was detained. His 1967 memoir Not Yet Uhuru argued that formal independence had not delivered real freedom. He returned to frontline politics in the early 1990s campaign for multiparty democracy; he was the father of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

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  • ally of Bildad Kaggia — Co-founded the Kenya People's Union.
  • ally of Bildad Kaggia — Co-founded the opposition Kenya People's Union.
  • rival of Jomo Kenyatta — Served as his vice-president, then broke away in opposition and was detained.
  • ally of Pio Gama Pinto — Close socialist ally in the KANU left.
  • ally of Pio Gama Pinto — Close socialist ally who worked with his wing of KANU.
  • family of Raila Odinga — Son of the nationalist and opposition leader Oginga Odinga.
  • rival of Tom Mboya — Rival for leadership within KANU and among the Luo.

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