FACTBOX: Key facts about Kenyan President Kibaki

(Reuters) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed an agreement on Thursday after talks on power-sharing to end a post-election crisis.

Following are key facts about Kibaki:

* Kibaki was born on November 15, 1931, in Othaya, near Mount Kenya, in the heartland of his Kikuyu tribe, Kenya's largest. The son of a tobacco trader, his name in Kikuyu means big tobacco leaf.

* Kibaki became a legislator for the ruling Kenya African National Union party at independence in 1963. He served 10 years as President Daniel arap Moi's vice-president after other ministerial posts.

* After falling out of favor with Moi, Kibaki defected from KANU in 1991 and launched the Democratic Party to contest the first multi-party election in 1992. He lost that and a 1997 poll. In 2002 his National Rainbow Coalition won power.

* During his term, the Rainbow Coalition split and Raila Odinga, one of its members, became Kibaki's main opponent.

* Kibaki introduced free primary and secondary education and economic growth speeded up, but critics said he had done little to combat graft and tribalism and reneged on pledges such as re-writing the constitution within 100 days.

* Kibaki was declared the winner of the December 27 election, but Odinga said the vote had been stolen. At least 1,000 people were killed in the ensuing crisis, which badly damaged Kenya's reputation for stability.

* Married with four children, Kibaki was educated at Uganda's Makerere University and the London School of Economics, where he was the first African to graduate with a first-class degree. He returned to Makerere in 1958 as an economics lecturer.

* Among Kenya's richest men, he has vast land holdings and interests in hotels, insurance and farming. Kibaki enjoys playing golf and socializing at Nairobi's exclusive clubs.