Word: odinga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them over a public address system. Some of the federal trial suspects mounted a more traditional defense. Others, seemingly as well coordinated as the prosecutors, declared that the court had no right to try them. "I am clearly a political prisoner of war," intoned ex-Black Panther Sekou Odinga, 39, who added that he is engaged in an "armed struggle with the United States...
...shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double O," reportedly threatened to form an opposition socialist party, Moi rammed through a constitutional amendment converting K.A.N.U.'s de facto one-party rule in Kenya to formal status...