{"id":212027,"date":"2025-10-31T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-we-learn-from-the-legacy-of-raila-odinga\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:38:11","slug":"kenya-what-we-learn-from-the-legacy-of-raila-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-we-learn-from-the-legacy-of-raila-odinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: What We Learn From the Legacy of Raila Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Arguments have been made on the fallen Kenyan political maestro, the late Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga as a leader whose political imprints into the sands of our time are at best enigmatic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Yes, it is arguably and factually true that the late Raila is a politician of many exceptional firsts in Kenya. In 1994 Raila resigned a member of Parliament on Ford-Kenya ticket to seek reelection on NDP ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">So far, the first and the only time a Kenyan political leader has made such a bold step in Kenya&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510300625.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments have been made on the fallen Kenyan political maestro, the late Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga as a leader whose political imprints into the sands of our time are at best enigmatic. Yes, it is arguably and factually true that the late Raila is a politician of many exceptional firsts in Kenya. In 1994 Raila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":212028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,8334,11879,257,6519,10917,254],"class_list":["post-212027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-learn","tag-legacy","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}