“…71 Luo patriotism therefore remained united behind the rustic figure of Oginga Odinga to a degree that no Kikuyu leader, not even Kenyatta, could hope to attain. (Tom Mboya remained a man of the town until after his assassination when Luo, suspicious of his urban cunning in life, 72 reclaimed him in death). Horizontal, external, Luo politics was not fired up by the vertical, internal, friction that propelled the Kikuyu.…”