Raila Odinga's final march as the People's President comes home to rest

The burial of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Bondo, on October 19, 2025. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Down the way, where the land hugs the lake, Raila Odinga was on Sunday delivered to his ancestors, and to the first people he ever knew when he arrived in the world he was now departing.

After a long day of exaltation and political squabbling, and under a scorching Bondo sky, the family retreated to the Kang’o ka Jaramogi, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s homestead, to see off a man who was as much the people’s as he was theirs.