Biography fidel odinga

His father named him after the legendary Cuban revolutionary, Castro. But when Fidel came into this world in 1973, the baby who would grow into a towering hunk would never have guessed the demands that come with being an Odinga.

Scion of a family that has defined protest and opposition politics since the 1950s, he seems to have lived in the shadows of his illustrious forbearers; grandson of a Vice President, son of a Prime Minister; Ida’s boy, the strong matriarch who held the family together throughout most of the family’s troubled history.

Kenya slowly became aware of him at the onset of multiparty politics.

But he only raised himself to his full height and became a public figure in his own right when his father Raila became Prime Minister.

His name would pop up in gossip columns, on social and mainstream media more often, depicting him as a businessman and his father’s political wingman in Kibera, the spraw