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Yaani Baba is gone? Grappling with loss of Raila Odinga

Ruth Odinga, Winnie Odinga and Raila Odinga Junior pay their last respects to their father as his body lay at Parliament Buildings. [PCS]

“Yaani Baba ameenda. Bado sijaamini.”

These were the words of a colleague with whom I shared a cup of tea midmorning Thursday. As one of the crew who would travel to Bondo to cover the burial, it was hard for him to believe that the man he has idolised for so many years had gone up to be with his ancestors.

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