Odera Akang’o: Why Luo Nation has many professors

Odera Akang’o

He laid the path on which Luo Nyanza has produced the cream of Kenya’s academia. Senior Chief Odera Akang’o, after whom Moi University Yala Campus in Siaya County is named, was one-of-kind, benevolent dictator.

Indeed, some of the most educated Kenyans emerged from Akango’os Gem area in Siaya, including eminent historians Prof Bethwel Ogot (who donated the land on which Odera Akang’o Campus stands) and Prof WR Ochieng, former University of Nairobi VC, Prof George Magoha, ICIPE founder Prof Thomas Odhiambo, Kenya’s first African lawyer CMG Argwings-Kodhek, Barack Obama Snr, and arguably the brightest Kenyan of all time, the late Prof David Wasawo.