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Raila Odinga
Kenyan politician Raila Odinga.
After earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1970, Raila Odinga returned to Kenya and began working as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. During this period, he engaged in various engineering-related business ventures. Among these was the establishment of a company that would later become known as East African Spectre, Ltd.1