I first heard Raila Odinga’s name around 1992, when I was six. My father was running for a councillor’s seat, and politics was the soundtrack of our home. Raila’s name hovered constantly, uttered ...

It is a lucky thing to be born into history. When I came to this earth on the 29th of August 1989, Raila Odinga, the scion of Kenya’s first vice president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was celebrating three ...