Not Yet Uhuru

Years ago Odinga Odinga led the fight waged by KANU, Kenya's ruling party, for the release from detention Jomo Kenyatta (accused of managing the 'Mau Mau'), and the formation of a KANU government. In April 1966 Odinga broke with KANU and Kenyatta, surrendered public office as vice president of Kenya, and announced that he could no longer support the government's policies at home and abroad, and that the time had come to form an opposition party. With Bildad Kaggia, Dennis Akumu, Achieng Oneko, Tom Okelo-Odongo, and other former members of KANU, he established the Kenya People's Union. From then onwards, up to the time of his death in 1994, he embodied opposition politics, contending that those who sacrificed most of Kenya's independence "lost out" to people who played safe. He was always a controversial figure in East African politics--having at one time been labeled a Communist, a pawn of the East, a subversive influence, and, with his strong backing in Nyanza, a tribalist. Even when a staunch supporter of KANU, before and after Uhuru, he was known to be critical of some of its policies and alliances.

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