Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and his fellow Maseno School students founded a boys club in 1932. Its members were drawn from Sakwa, Yimbo, Uyoma, South Gem and Seme. During school holidays, they would return to their rural homes to set examinations for local schools, construct houses for elderly women and assist them with farm work. They also created the Migwena Sports Competition.
It was during one of these Migwena contests in 1943, at Migwena Sports Ground in Bondo, that Jaramogi first locked eyes with a striking young woman. She was a middle-distance athlete, and Jaramogi soon asked a friend to find out more about her. He later learnt that her name was Mary Juma, the daughter of Myriam Osiro, one of the four wives of Justo Odima.
Odima, a former chief whom Jaramogi admi
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