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The honest truth about my father Jaramogi Oginga: He didn't want us to grow up as town boys

East Africa Legislative Assembly (Eala) MP Oburu Oginga  says his troubles with the colonial government began when he wanted to join high school.

It didn’t help that his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, had been fighting the mzungu mentality that Africans could not do business or become rich, the reason he resigned from his teaching job at Maseno School.

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