He is an immediate former member for the East African Legislative Assembly, based in Arusha Tanzania.
He is the former assistant minister for finance in the 2008 Grand Coalition government and a former Member of the Kenyan Parliament.
His late father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a prominent politician at the time of independence, serving as Kenya's first vice-president, [1] an elected MP from Bondo Constituency.
On the 25th of November 2021, Oburu Oginga launched his Autobiography titled 'In the Shadow of My Father'.
He narrated his life story to one of Kenya's famous historiographers Bethuel Oduo who was Oburu's publishing consultant for the memoir writing.