Fredrick Valentine Opwapo Ogai: Soldier, Political Detainee, 1982 Coup Participant and Kenyan Exile in Sweden
From the Military to Political Resistance Fredrick Valentine Opwapo Ogai, also widely remembered as Opwapo Ogae, was a Kenyan former soldier, political activist, political detainee and participant in the failed 1 August 1982 coup attempt against President Daniel arap Moi. His political history stretched much further back than the dramatic events of 1982. Indeed, Opwapo's life connects three turbulent periods in Kenya's post-independence history: the suppression of the Kenya People's Union under President Jomo Kenyatta, the attempted overthrow of Moi in 1982, and the political exile movement that subsequently developed among Kenyans living in Europe. Official records establish his name…