Raila biography

Raila Odinga Biography

Raila Odinga is a Kenyan politician and businessman who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Odinga is assumed as the Leader of the Opposition in Kenya since 2013.

In addition, he was the Member of Parliament for Langata from 1992 to 2007.

Born in Maseno, Kisumu District, he attended Kisumu Union Primary and Maranda High School where he studied until 1962 and was transferred by his father to Germany.

He spent the next two years at the Herder institution, which would train foreign students in the German language.

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While there, he was also part of the philological faculty at the University of Leipzig in East Germany.

Later on, he earned a scholarship that sent him to the Technical School, Magdeburg. In 1970, he graduated with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Welding.

Raila returned to Kenya in the same year and established Standard Processing Equipment Construction & Erection Ltd in 1971.

He served in the Cabinet of Kenya as