Interesting direction taken, brother! I personally barely knew (but really wished) about this wonderful history. The fact that the Jaramogi family preserves all this is amazing!!!! You have really done us(Ugandans) proud 😀
There is a day Jaramogi came to Maseno School for the Maseno Old Boys Association (MOBA) meeting. The excitement we had as students. Gerald Otieno Kanjwang, Ndolo Ayah, Ochieng Oneko, Njeru Githae were there too, but we were focused on Jaramogi. Later my classmate, Wachira Kiboi and I, visited him at this Bondo home on our weekend outing. At UoN, Wachira and I saw him every week at AGIP House. We were also leaders in SONU and youth leaders in Ford Kenya. Jaramogi was a statesman and a Kenyan patriot.
As a guest of US Civil rights Organizer , Charles Cobb Jr. Kenya's Independence VP Oginga Odinga was once arrested in Atlanta while in Atlanta protesting against Black discrimination together with 17 other SNCC students . This was an embarrassment for the relations between US and Kenya after the state realized that they had locked up Kenya VP . He refused to leave jail until all the black students were released . His wishes were granted .
In 1963, US first Black Chief Justice, Thurgood Marshall,who was friends with Kenya Nationalists Tom Mboya,Oginga Odinga and Jomo Kenyatta, was responsible for writing part of Kenya's Independence constitution particularly the part on rights of racial minorities including white, Asian/Indian,Arabs etc .
Prior to Kenya Independence 1963 racial segregation in Kenya ,white 1st class citizen, Asian/Indian, Arab second class citizen ,black Kenya 3rd class .
US first Black Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall was disappointed at the post independence polarization between Nationalists leaders President Jomo Kenyatta and VP Oginga Odinga and assassination of Nationalist Tom Mboya in 1960s . These were his close friends .
US civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King lost his life in 1968 at age 39 and his close friend Kenya independence Nationalists Tom Mboya lost his life in 1969 at the age of 38 . Both Tom Mboya and Dr Martin Luther King had 4 kids each all below age 13 .
An awesome preservation of history in its original state. I didn't realize three of his wives are still alive. The blogger is amazingly respectful 🙏🏿 Thank you for sharing.
Uganda’s first president Milton Obote was founding member of Kenya's Independence party and worked together with VP Oginga Odinga to transfer Mwai Kibaki from Makerere as a lecturer to Kenya as the first independence party executive officer in 1960 . There is road in Kisumu named Obote road .
Milton Obote was a frequent visitor to Kisumu and was denied asylum in Kenya by Daniel Moi in 1985 due to his close friendship with VP Oginga Odinga . Odungi Randa was personal assistant to Oginga Odinga and in his youth travelled to Uganda to start marriage negotiations with a Luo-Acholi fiancée but the marriage never materialized as Idi Amin wiped out the entire family of the girl .
VP Oginga Odinga of Kenya and President Milton Obote(Luo-Langi) of Uganda started efforts to unite the Luo of East ,Central, North/North East Africa . The first headquarters of Luo Union was in Kisumu at the OFAFA MEMORIAL HALL . Ambrose Ofafa was the first treasurer of Luo Union and was killed during the British Colonial state of emergency under dubious circumstances . The funeral was conducted in Alego Kargada in Nyanza Kenya .
VP Oginga Odinga started a unity tour and funds drive tour of East,Central and NorthEast Africa to support Luo Union . He would later resign as Luo Ker after he became Kenya VP relinquishing the post to Joel Omer . Other notable Luo Ker included Paul Mboya from South Nyanza Karachuonyo whose son together with Argwings Kodhek,first MP Gem Nyanza,were both the first black lawyers in pre-independence Kenya .
VP Oginga Odinga together with some of his children travelled extensively across East and Central Africa collecting funds to build Ofafa memorial hall in 1955 . Ofafa memorial was about 300 meters on the right side of Kaloleni estate Kisumu and behind the house of Oginga Odinga .
The Architect for construction of Luo Union Ofafa memorial hall was Washington Onger of Gem Olumbi with a company called LUTATKO and a contractor called RAMOGI CONSTRUCTION under Luo Thrift an entrepreneurship arm of Luo-Union .
Nice content, keep them coming. Work on the captions though, your tour guide clearly pointed out that this is Jaramogi's (father) home and not Raila's (son).
In 1982 Kenya Independence VP Oginga Odinga supported Kenya Airforce coup against Daniel Moi led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, Sgt Pancreas Oteyo Okumu,Sgt Ogidi Obuon,Sgt Samuel Opiyo,Cpl Joseph Ogidi Obuon,Capt Agola,Fenwicks Chesoli Odira,James Otieno Odemba,Cpl George Akoth,Atila,Charles Oriwa Hongo,Charles Mirasi,Robert Odhiambo Ndege,Edward Adel Omollo Cpl Bramwell Injeni Njereman,Major Mutua .
The largest funds drive of LUO UNION was chaired by President Milton Obote(Luo-Langi) in LIRA NORTHERN UGANDA in 1958 with VP OGINGA ODINGA of Kenya present . There is a OBOTE road in Kisumu Kenya . The Luo Ker Odungi Randa met Milton Obote multiple times when he was hosted by VP Oginga Odinga in Kisumu Kenya and named his late son Stephen Milton Obote . The Luo Ker of Kenya was set to Marry in Luo-Acholiland in Uganda but his fiancé’s family was wiped out by Idi Amin after the fall of Milton Obote in 1971.
In his youth the current Ker(leader Luo Council) of Kenya Luo Odungi Randa, as a PA, traveled extensively with VP Oginga Odinga of Kenya to Uganda . Milton Obote and VP Oginga attended MAKERERE University of Uganda and were very close friends and members of LUO-UNION East, Central,North/North East Africa . Julius Nyerere also attended Makerere University in Uganda .
In 1985 DANIEL MOI of Kenya denied Uganda president Milton Obote asylum after Gen Tito Okello took power through a coup supported by his army commander Gen Bazilio Olara Okello . Daniel Moi had a strained relation with VP Oginga Odinga of Kenya who was best friends with Milton Obote of Uganda .
In 1979 Uganda exiles in Tanzania, Kenya led by Uganda National Liberation Army Commander Gen Tito Okello, Gen Bazillio Olara Okello, Gen Oyite Ojok together with Airforce Commander Major Alfred Otto, Airforce Cpt Harry Oluoch , Cpt Peter Oringi , Lt Col John Ogole , Buffalo Commander Major Eric Odwar, Cpt Oyile, Lt Okot,Lt Okumu,Jabuloni Okee,Lt Col Adiryano Ojok,Gen Smith Opon Acak,Major John Olwo,Laban Okello and Gereson Okello supported by Tanzania President Julius Nyerere and Kenya VP Oginga Odinga launched a rebellion against Idi Amin through Mwanza ,Tanzania/Kisumu ,Kenya on L. Victoria restoring President Milton Obote .
@@SammyKaranja-o4w and Obama is not president in 2024 . English is not your first language . President, VP ,Prime Minister etc life-time designations .
@@papd3532 stop hiding behind technicalities. It is an American thing to use the titles 'president/VP' after they leave office. In this part of the world we say 'retired/former'. Point remains, Odinga was not VP in 1979
@@SammyKaranja-o4w Don't be silly . America was founded by the English . President, VP, Prime Minister etc are lifetime titles every where on the planet using English including President Nelson Mandela .
The area is not semi arid... Maybe it is not yet rainy season otherwise you would have find trouble moving. The only places that receive more rainfull than this areas are Kisii and Kericho.
Kenya's independence constitution was partly written by first US Black Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall who was friends with Kenya Nationalists Jomo Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga and Tom Mboya . Tom Mboya was a Keynote speaker at the March in Washington in 1963 and close friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Harry Belafonte ,Andrew Young, Sidney Poitier, Ralph Abernathy and other black civil rights leaders . The Kenyan Nationalists and US Black Civil rights leaders set up resources to help educate Black Kenyans denied higher education opportunities by white before Independence in 1963 . Hence Obama father to Harvard .
After Harvard where Obama father had studied Phd Economics, he worked with Nationalist Tom Mboya who was Minister Of Economic Planning and was responsible for writing Kenya's post independence Economic framework .
Obama wrote about his father ,Tom Mboya and their Nilotic Luo peoples( same group as Actress LUPITA NYONGO, Ugandan-British actress SHEILA ATIM of WOMAN KING,LRA rebel JOSEPH KONY against Yoweri Museveni in Uganda comprising at least 20-25 million spread out in 9 territories including Tanzania ,Kenya, Uganda, DRC Congo, Chad, Central Africa Republic, Lower Egypt/Sudan, Ethiopia Gambella/Eritrea) .
I was there as a High school student during the burial of opposition doyen, Jaramogi. Everything looks same. Let the lane to the home be tarmacked yawa!
"Kang'o" = an ancestral name given to this land/Village - specifically, this area. "Ka" = a home belonging to / a domain under a stewardship of ... "Ja-Ramogi" = a demonym/pseudonym - the Ramogi people - any man who identifies as a Luo, like Oginga Odinga, is a Ja-Ramogi' . Consequently, "Kang'o Ka JaRamogi" = The home of Oginga Odinga at Kango village.
