1/7 #HistoryKeTrivia In the late 1940s, Kenya Africa Union (KAU) officials embarked on a countrywide tour to recruit various African leaders to its cause.
2/7 In Nyanza, they found a young man, Oginga Odinga, who was in the process of launching a vast cooperative society. Oginga was its Managing Director. 
3/7 The society was known as the Luo Thrift Corporation, although others called it the Luo Thift Trading Union.
4/7 The Corporation had as its Secretary a talented speaker and writer in Achieng Oneko (C), who was also the Editor of Ramogi newspaper.
5/7 Following talks between Mzee Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga, the latter agreed to have Oneko relinquish his positions and become the Secretary General of KAU.
6/7 Thus it can be argued that Oginga and Oneko joined politics around the same time, and courtesy of KAU.
7/7 Oneko photo is courtesy of Mohinder Dhillon.
