Odinga on Obama Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle.
RAILA ODINGA, whose father was Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the man who obtained numerous scholarships from the USSR for Kenyans to study at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, to which he sent one of his own sons, was once upon a time a teacher at the Maseno school attended by the kenyan student Barack (Berwick) Obama and his older brother, Joseph/Yusuf. There may well be a family relationship somewhere in their background, a clan-based relationship perhaps, but Raila Odinga is NOT related to zero, because zero isn't the son of the kenyan student; the son of the kenyan student, last seen, was in Washington DC with the President of Equatorial Guinea.
That's the man on the far left of the group.
