Raila must smell the coffee and move fast to rekindle waning Odinga magic

Raila Odinga

For six decades, the Odinga mystic has captured the imagination of the Luo of Kenya like a people under a spell.

If indeed they are a dynasty as some have often suggested, the Odinga Dynasty goes back to the pre-independence era. In the 1930s, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga emerged from the lakeside as a towering political figure, capturing the centre stage of the nationalist movement that led to Kenya’s independence in 1963.