Awori was an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) political party.

[2] Awori was born on 23 February 1939, in Budimo Village, Busia District, near the Ugandan/Kenyan border as the tenth of seventeen children.

[3] Aggrey's siblings include the ninth Kenyan vice-president Arthur Moody Awori[4] and Mary Okelo, the first woman in East Africa to head a Barclays Bank branch and the founder of the Kenya Women Finance Trust, Kenya's women only bank.

[3] After a brief asylum in Nairobi, Awori started to build up a rebel group operating from eastern Uganda named Force Obote Back Again (FOBA).

In 1993, Awori met with Museveni in New York and then was elected to the Constituent Assembly to drawing up the country's new constitution and as a member of parliament.

Awori was an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) political party.

[19] He was married to Thelma Awori, who worked as Director for Africa at the United Nations Development Programme.

[3] Aggrey Awori, at the age of 82, died from COVID-19 on 5 July 2021, at a private hospital in Naalya, Kampala.