His humble mien does not betray his larger-than-life portrait that is his distinguished past. In his heyday, he dined with former US President John F Kennedy, sheltered and led street demos with epoch-making America’s liberation idols, and shared Africa’s painful freedom struggle with independence heroes.
Mention of Odero Nyimbi draws blank stares among his compatriots, even as he stands towering head and shoulders above better-known players in the arena of freedom struggle and human rights.