Raila Odinga: From a rebel who sported a stubborn Lenin goatee to ‘Baba’

Raila Odinga boards a prison lorry in the 80s. [File, Standard]

If anyone had described Raila Odinga as BABA in 1988, he would have found himself in deep trouble with the authorities.

 Today almost everyone calls him BABA. And that is indeed a mythical transition.

Let’s begin this tale differently. That the new teacher always had a novel in his hands. Some of the titles he read were prohibited at the time.