When his father and founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga parted ways with founding President Jomo Kenyatta, Oburu Oginga did not know that the same would haunt him for some years to come.
Born in 1943, Oburu was already a trouble maker by the time he joined Maranda Primary School and was transfered to Kisumu Union in 1955 to separate him from his younger brother and opposition leader Raila Odinga, a partner in crime.
By 1965, he was student leader at the Patrice Lumumba Friends University in the communist Russia where he held the Secretary General of African Students Union under Ali Owiny, the union boss.
They were once subjected to accusations from the Russian administrations when they staged a demo against the racist killing of an African Student.
He landed back in Kenya with a PhD in economics in 1970.
However, he could not secure a job due to his association with the communist world, a culture that even his father had also practiced.
The same was the case when he appeared before then University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Josphat Karanja for a job interview.
The latter had applied for a lecturer job but was denied the slot on grounds that Karanja knew about his activism practices back in Russia.
Karanja had previously served as the Kenyan envoy to the UK and was familair with Oburu's actions in school.
"Karanja asked me a political question. He asked me if I believed in capitalism or communism. I told him the question was irrelevant. I told him I believed in socialism.
That I believed in religion and private ownership of property, and communism did not. But he said I would introduce communist ideology at the university!" Oburu said in an interview with the Nation in 2006.
Karanja would later be picked as a Vice President.
However, he later landed a job at the Kisumu Municipal Council which he left after two tears after landing another at the Luo Thrift Company.
He is currently a Kenyan representative to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).