Raila Odinga — the towering figure of Kenyan politics who helped usher in multiparty democracy and a new constitution — has died in India at 80.

The first shock was that he was gone. The second came hours later. According to family members and State House officials, he left a clear directive: that he wished to be interred within 72

President William Ruto has dispatched Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi to lead a high-level delegation to India to oversee the repatriation of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga,