Now that former Prime Minister (PM) Raila Odinga has gone to the land without thunder, I have paused to think about this enigma of a man. Born of a legend, he charted his own path to become a legend himself. From obscurity, he crafted his own story through tears, sweat and blood. Enduring incarceration and detention for long periods of time, and, from his testimony, kept incommunicado for six years, it is a wonder he didn’t lose the ability to speak. Six years of loneliness were made even more torturous by sleeping on a bare concrete floor without a mattress.…