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Odinga
Odinga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (1911–1994), Kenya's first vice-president and later opposition leader. **Raila Odinga (born 1945), Former Prime Minister of Kenya, son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga **Ida Odinga (born 1950), Kenyan businesswoman, activist and educator, wife of Raila Odinga **Oburu Odinga (born 1943), MP, son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga *Norman Odinga (born 1963), Canadian association football player * Sekou Odinga, American activist from the Black Liberation Army See also *Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology in Kenya {{surname Surnames of Kenyan origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raila Odinga
Raila Amolo Odinga (born 7 January 1945) is a Kenyan politician, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata and businessman who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. He is assumed to be the Leader of Opposition in Kenya since 2013. Odinga has contested elections as President of Kenya five times and lost. In 1997, he finished third as the candidate of the National Development Party (NDP). In 2007, he ran again for the presidency under the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and lost to Mwai Kibaki. In 2013, 2017, and 2022, Odinga was the runner-up as a candidate for the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), National Super Alliance (NASA) and Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party respectively. After his loss, he called for mass protests against President-elect Ruto. Early life and education Kenya Colony Raila Odinga was born at the Anglican Church Missionary Society Hospital in Maseno, Kisumu District, Nyanza Province on 7 January 1945 to Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga (October 1911 – 20 January 1994) was a Luo (Kenya), Luo chieftain who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence. He later served as Kenya's first Vice-President of Kenya, Vice-President, and thereafter as opposition leader. Odinga's son Raila Odinga is the former Prime Minister of Kenya, Prime Minister, and another son, Oburu Odinga, is a former Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Finance. Jaramogi is credited for the phrase "Not Yet Uhuru" which is the title of his autobiography published in 1967. "Uhuru" means freedom in Swahili and he was referencing his belief that even after independence from British colonialism, the brutal oppression of opposition in political affairs in Kenya, meant that the country had still not attained real freedom. Jaramogi's son Raila was also in detention for a period of eight years. Early years and career Oginga Odinga was born in the village of Nyamira Kang'o, Bondo District, Bondo, to Mama Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Odinga
Ida Betty Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo on 24 August 1950) is a Kenyan businesswoman, activist and educator. She is the wife of Raila Odinga, the former Prime Minister of Kenya, and the leader of National Super Alliance (NASA). In 2010, '' The Standard'' named Odinga, who was one of the first women to head a major Kenyan company, as one of the top most powerful women in Kenya in 2010. Early life and education Odinga earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nairobi in 1973 when she was 24 years old. While attending the University of Nairobi, she met her future husband, Raila Odinga, who was an employee of the university's Department of Engineering at the time. The couple married on 1 September 1973 and have four children. One of their children, Fidel Odinga, died in 2015. Career She worked as a teacher for more than twenty years after graduation. She taught at Kenya High School, an all-girls public school located near Nairobi. Her students included the late Governor of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University Of Science And Technology
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology(JOOUST), is a public university in Kenya. It is named after independence leader and Kenya's first Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, and father to 21st century politician Raila Odinga. Prof. Stephen G. Agong’, PHD, FAAS, has been the Vice Chancellor of JOOUST since 2013. Location It is located in the town of Bondo, in Siaya County in the western part of Kenya, approximately , by road, west of the city of Kisumu. The geographical coordinates of the university's main campus are 0°05'38.0"S, 34°15'31.0"E (Latitude:-0.093889; Longitude:34.258611). Overview JOOUST was founded in 2009, through a Legal Order, as ''Bondo University College'', a constituent college of Maseno University. In 2013, the law was repealed and the university received its own charter as an independent institution of higher education. Academics As of February 2019, the university maintained the following academic units: ; Schools * School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Odinga
Norman Hendrik Odinga (born February 11, 1963) is a Canadian retired international soccer player. Club career Odinga was named MVP of the University of Alberta and played for the Edmonton Eagles, Edmonton Brick Men and Vancouver 86ers. International career Odinga made his debut for Canada in an April 1989 friendly match against Denmark and earned a total of 8 caps, scoring 1 goal. He also played in a non official match against Mexico in March 1991. He has represented Canada at the inaugural 1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship. His final international game was a July 1993 World Cup qualification match against Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... International goals :''Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.'' Coaching career He currently i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekou Odinga
Sekou Odinga (born June 17, 1944, as Nathanial Burns) is an American activist and convicted felon who was imprisoned for actions with the Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, Sekou joined the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), founded by Malcolm X. After Malcolm's death, the OAAU was not going in the direction he wanted and by 1967 he was looking at the Black Panther Party. In early 1968, he helped build the Bronx chapter of the Black Panther Party. On January 17, 1969, two Panthers, Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, were killed by members of US Organization on the UCLA campus, and a fellow New York Panther who was in police custody was brutally beaten. Sekou was informed that police were searching for him in connection with a police shooting. The confluence of these events convinced Sekou to disappear from public-facing organizing and join the black underground with the Black Liberation Army. Sekou Odinga remained underground, partaking in revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oburu Odinga
Oburu Ng'ong'a Oginga (born 15 October 1943) is a Kenyan politician who is currently serving as senator for Siaya County, having been elected in the elections of August 2022. He is an immediate former member for the East African Legislative Assembly, based in Arusha Tanzania. He is the former assistant minister for finance in the 2008 Grand Coalition government and former Member of the Parliament, Kenya. Oburu is from the known Odinga family. His brother Raila Odinga was second in the Presidential elections of December 2007, March 2013, August 2017, and August 2022. His late father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a prominent politician at the time of independence, serving as Kenya's first vice-president. He was an elected MP from Bondo Constituency. His sister Ruth Odinga Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
