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Fact file on Raila Odinga

New Vision Online "Born into one of Kenya’s political dynasties on January 2, 1945, in Maseno, west Kenya, the 62-year-old Odinga comes from the Luo tribe, one of the country’s biggest.

- Father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a nationalist hero and Kenya's first vice president after independence from Britain in 1963, became a key opposition figure against the governments of founding President Jomo Kenyatta and his successor President Daniel Arap Moi.

- Odinga is viewed as a firebrand by many Kenyans, an impression consolidated by remarks in a biography indicating he was a plotter in an attempted coup in 1982. Now he is trying to project a more moderate, business-friendly face."

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