Raila Odinga, who has died aged 80, was the prime minister of Kenya from 2008 until 2013 and a longtime leading member of his country’s opposition.
A man who was both divisive and revered, he came from an aristocratic political lineage. His father, Oginga Odinga, had been a leading figure in the movement for independence from Britain in 1963 and served as vice-president to the country’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, who begat his own lineage. It was Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru, who defeated Raila Odinga in the 2017 presidential elections.
