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Peter Tsotsi Juma (1932 – 2000), born Peter Juma was a Zambian folk teller, social commentator and musician. He rose to fame with the popular song Muka Muchona. Hespent most of his active years both in Zambia and East Africa. He migrated to Tanzania in 1940s and then moved to Kenya where he married and lived.
He is well known for the hits "Bashi Chanda (Njebeniko Njishibe Ichishinka)", "Tyson" and "Muka Muchona" which were recorded upon his return to Zambia from Kenya.
He lived in Kenya for a long time and established it as his home. He was married to a Kenyan woman named Margaret Njiru, with whom he had five children, three girls and two boys. In 1962, he met fellow Zambian Nashil Pichen Kazembe and did a number of songs together.
Peter Tsotsi Juma and Nashil Pichen played a critical role in the development of the Equator Sound Band's "twist" style, modeled after the South African kwela rhythm.

source: wikipedia
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King Daudi Chwa on his way to his grandfather’s tomb_Circa 1910

Daudi Chwa II KCMG KBE was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1897 until 1939. He was the 34th Kabaka of Buganda.

He was born on 8 August 1896, at Mengo. He was the fifth son of Kabaka Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa, Kabaka of Buganda, between 1884 and 1888 and between 1889 and 1897. His mother was Abakyala Evalini Kulabako, of the Ngabi Clan, the fourth of his father's sixteen wives. He ascended to the throne in August 1897 following the deposition of his father by British Forces. At the time of his coronation, he was only one year old. He maintained his capital at Mengo Hill. He was educated at Kings College Budo.

On 8 August 1914, he received an honorary commission as a lieutenant in the British Army, and was appointed an honorary captain on 22 September 1917. He was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in the 1918 New Year Honours, and was promoted to honorary Knight Commander (KCMG) on 16 February 1925. He was further appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1937 Coronation Honours.[5] He was also decorated as a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium in 1918.

He is recorded to have fathered 36 children; 20 sons and 16 daughters.

He died at his palace at Salaama, a suburb of Kampala, on 22 November 1939 at the age of 43 years. He was buried at Kasubi Nabulagala, the third Kabaka to be buried there.
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The accompanying image, courtesy of Flickr, is an undated image of Jomo Kenyatta at a function in Limuru, Kenya. The White gentleman with his back to the camera is A.C. Cartling, who served as Head of the Presidential Escort under Jomo Kenyatta, and was succeeded by Bernard Njiinu as Head of the Presidential Escort. Bernard Njiinu later served as Commissioner of Police in Daniel T. arap Moi's Kenya, and is still alive at around 95 years of age. The sleek limousine in accompanying image is one of at least four sleek official limousines that Jomo Kenyatta used during his tenure as Prime Minister and President of Kenya.

Jomo Kenyatta began with a Rolls Royce Bentley that was later transferred to the Mayor of Nairobi, and is still in the possession of the County of Nairobi. For example, Gov. Evans Kidero used the Rolls Royce Bentley at his inauguration as Governor of Nairobi in 2013.

The Americans then donated a Cadillac Convertible that Jomo Kenyatta used till around 1964, before reverting to the Mercedes Benz model in accompanying model. The Cadillac Convertible then changed ownership to the Kenyatta family, and the last time it was seen in public was Jomo Kenyatta's State funeral of 31st August 1978, with Jomo Kenyatta's then son-in-law Udi Gecaga and Jomo Kenyatta's nephew Ngengi Muigai riding in it.

After the three came the iconic Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman, ahead of it's time then, and ahead of it's time even now;
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undated photograph taken in Maralal, Kenya, during Jomo Kenyatta's restriction of 1959 to 1961. Left, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, and right, Jomo Kenyatta.
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Macmillan’s Castle (the popular name for Juja house at Donyo Sabuk near Thika) was known for its scandals, affairs and wife-swapping parties and nicknamed kilavu (club house) by the locals. It was hosted former (26th) US President Theodore Roosevelt there several times - who once wrote about it in his biography and also there during his famous 1909 safari and other hunting trips. Winston Churchill was also a guest during his 1908 excursion to Uganda and Kenya as a travel writer producing Churchill - My African Journey, the story of his trip. It later became a popular film location.

It ws owned by Sir William Northrup Macmillan. Lord William Northrup McMillan was the first white man to settle here, and everything else that has happened since is largely attributed to him

It was there in 1930, that one of Kenya's most colourful politicians, Tom Mboya, was born and brought up, when his father worked in then sisal farm as a labourer. Though the setting is not in a valley, this circuit comprised a prime chip of the famed Happy Valley set. Tom Mboya attended Kilimambogo Primary School, a Catholic Missionary Sponsored institution, within the larger St. Johns Kilimambogo Teachers College.

McMillan's home, a fort by any definition, sits in splendour. More than three-quarters of the house is under key and lock. A part of it houses the Muka Mukuu Farmer's Co-operative Society, Ltd. a farmer's cooperative. The land around the home is currently used for the production of pineapples.

Covering a ground enough for three basketball pitches, the villagers have spent more than a century wondering why a couple that had no children put up such a huge dwelling place. So large is the building that Lord Macmillan and his wife would spend one year in one wing of the house, then migrate to the other in the second half of the year. The locals are yet to figure out how they can benefit from such an obvious tourist attraction site.

The early notorieties of the ranch captured the imagination of many people during the First World War, when the castle served as a military hospital for British officers. The wild parties held in the castle, where the notorious colonial maverick Colonel Ewart Grogan reputedly led the wine-tossing and supervised wife-sharing orgies, only spiced the sideshows that attracted international media. Hence the castle was baptised "Kilavu" by the locals, meaning Club house in Kamba.
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