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Oginga Odinga, in full Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga, (born October 1911, Sakwa, Central Nyanza, East Africa Protectorate [now in Kenya] died Jan. 20, 1994, Kisumu, Kenya), African nationalist politician who was a leader in the opposition against the single-party rule of Jomo Kenyatta and his successor, Daniel arap Moi. Odinga was a member of Kenya’s second largest ethnic group, the Luo. Like many other prominent East Africans, he was educated at Makerere University College in Kampala, Ugan., and he was originally a teacher. From the late 1940s Odinga was an associate of Kenyatta’s in the campaign for Kenya’s independence from Britain;