His Nigerian biographer, Babafemi Badejo, characterized him as an enigma in Kenya's politics.
His Luo tribesmen agree.
They have styled him as Agwambo, a mercurial character whom nobody really understands.
They consider him strange, mysterious and lethal, like the legendary magic-making Gor Mahia, who lived in the 18th Century. True to this characterisation, the most predictable thing about this man, Raila Amolo Odinga, is that he is hard to predict.