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Article: As It Buries a Leader, Kenya May Be Joining Africa's Era of Change
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- The Washington Post
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- February 6, 1994
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the Grand Old Man of Kenya's opposition
politics, was laid to rest beneath a cone-shaped dome in a marble
tomb today in this dusty town near the edge of Lake Victoria.
As Odinga's body was lowered into his grave, some among the
thousands of mourners wailed, and most gave him a final two-finger
salute, the trademark of the opposition party he led.
Odinga's death on Jan. 20 at age 82 leaves a vacuum in Kenyan
politics that likely will be filled by a younger generation of
leaders - better-educated than past leaders, more Westernized and
urban, and less bound to African traditional rites and the tug of
ethnicity, regionalism and tribal loyalties.
Many here say ...