Raila Odinga today

2023 - 3 - 30

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Raila and Malema: Two opposition leaders of a kind in Africa (The East African)

Kenya's Raila Odinga (left) South Africa's Julius Malema. The two organised a demonstration against their governments on the same day on March 20, 2023 and ...

South Africa is a wealthy country with huge swathes of cultivable land but 80 per cent it is owned by 10 per cent of white farmers while 80 per cent of the population is black. He has been quoted as saying during a TV interview that “they can call you all kinds of names and hurl insults, but as long as you have an appointment with the future, you don’t care what anyone says”. Despite a long struggle, Odinga has never been accorded a chance to run the affairs of this country as president, and his loyal followers believe he has been rigged out multiple times in his long political career. However, a couple of events in his life may give a clue as the kind of politician Odinga is, for his political journey has been quite eventful. This, then, is not the kind of person to threaten with arrest. Nor can Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters party be wished away, for he has proved to be a consummate revolutionary whose demands are anathema to the establishment.

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Raila Odinga and Julius Malema: Two of a kind in Africa (The Citizen)

Two events that took place almost 4000 kilometres apart on the same continent on the same day and for virtually the same reasons must have galvanised the ...

South Africa is a wealthy country with huge swathes of cultivable land but 80 per cent it is owned by 10 per cent of white farmers while 80 per cent of the population is black. He has been quoted as saying during a TV interview that “they can call you all kinds of names and hurl insults, but as long as you have an appointment with the future, you don’t care what anyone says”. Despite a long struggle, Odinga has never been accorded a chance to run the affairs of this country as president, and his loyal followers believe he has been rigged out multiple times in his long political career. However, a couple of events in his life may give a clue as the kind of politician Odinga is, for his political journey has been quite eventful. This, then, is not the kind of person to threaten with arrest. Nor can Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters party be wished away, for he has proved to be a consummate revolutionary whose demands are anathema to the establishment.

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