PREMIUM Migwena: The love story and history behind Raila anniversary venue Grounds where Jaramogi met Mary Odima now host Raila’s first death anniversary. Siaya Just now
It was here, on the expansive grounds in Bondo, Siaya County, that Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s first Vice President, is said to have first set eyes on Mary Odima, the athletic young woman who would become his wife and the mother of his children, among them Raila Odinga and Dr Oburu Oginga.
Long before it became the stage for one of Kenya’s most anticipated political and cultural gatherings, Migwena was a meeting place where young men and women sought love, neighbouring communities settled differences through sport, and a chance encounter between a young athlete and a towering nationalist helped shape the history of the Odinga family.
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