Odingas A Revolutionary Family, Not A Dynasty

Whatever we say about the Odingas today does not matter. Their space in history as ideological extensions of Africa’s top families is fully earned; 50 years of patriotic politics. That they continued pursuing the elusive independence as defined by celebrated forefathers is immortalised in the KPU manifesto, their patriarch’s publication “Not Yet Uhuru” and their track record in the second liberation. No Kenyan family name can be lined up with Kwame Nkrumah’s, Gamal Nasser’s, Julius Nyerere’s, Sylvanus Olympio’s, Nelson Mandela’s etc other than the Odingas...