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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
The statue of a naked boy holding a fish marks the entrance to the Supreme Court of Kenya. It used to be known as Hamilton Fountain. This statue was ordered during the Second World War by Mrs Getrude Hamilton. It was supposed to be placed in Nairobi as a living testimony to what her late husband and lawyer, George Alexander Hamilton who died in 1937 stood for: justice.
However, this is not the original statue that Mrs Hamilton had ordered. The original was packed aboard a cargo ship in England but the ship sank in the Indian Ocean.
Saddened by the loss, Mrs Hamilton ordered a replica which was erected outside the law courts of Nairobi. It never lasted for long as somebody stole it. The Nairobi City Council which had been mandated to take care of the statue commissioned Kenyan sculptor Robert Glan to mold another one.
Glan did it with it faint pictures of the original and whatever lay at the bottom of the ocean. It still stands today.
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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
KALULU an African boy who served as Sir Henry Morton Stanley's servant.
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Kalulu was a young East African slave given to Stanley by an Arab merchant while on his way to find Dr David Livingstone .
The boy's real name was Ndugu Mhali, but because Stanley didn't like this name he christened him Kalulu.He was also Stanley's adopted child
Between 1872 to 1873, Kalulu accompanied Stanley around Europe and America and during that time sat for a wax model along with Stanley which was installed at Madame Tussaud’s museum in London .
While in Europe Kalulu was presented to Emperor Napoleon and also walked alongside Livingstone’s casket in his London funeral. He was also enrolled in a school in England by Stanley.
The headmaster of the school where he was enrolled described him as clever and progressing in English.
After Dr Livingstone's death in 1874 Stanley left Britain for Africa accompanied by Kalulu to carry on from where Dr Livingstone had left.
In 1877 While in Africa Stanley embarked on an expedition into the Congo to try and find the Source of river Nile.
Unfortunately during this trip Kalulu died in a tragic canoe accident just at the age of 12 in Kalulu falls on the Congo River,the waterfall was named after him.

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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
The story of Jacob Wainwright the 14 year old African servant of Dr David Livingstone whose Journal was allegedly stolen for containing terrible truth about his master (Dr David Livingstone)
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When Missionary Dr David Livingstone died in the swamplands of Southern Africa in 1873 his three African servants had to decide what to do with his body.
The nearest British consulate was Zanzibar which was over 1000 miles away and undertaking the journey to move his body there would entail traversing some of the wildest and most dangerous terrain in Africa.
Nevertheless, Livingstone’s faithful attendants, led by veterans Susi and Chuma, who were in their 40s resolved to go ahead with the epic trek And so they set off for Zanzibar,
Among the three servants was Jacob Wainwright who was only 14 years old and the only one who could speak and write English .
Wainwright always kept a journal in which he recorded most of Dr Livingstone's activities when he was still alive.
And on this particular journey the timid, young Jacob Wainwright took upon himself to record a diary of events in his journal so that they might eventually persuade the British of all that transpired
Wainwright, although weak, was a Christian of the most pious and sanctimonious type and as such often stretched the tenuous relationship he had with his less educated comrades, sometimes even to breaking point.
However, he was diligent with his journaling and duly kept a record of every terror the fateful group encountered on their way to Zanzibar; when disease turned to madness, and madness to disease, he was there.
But it was when they finally reached Zanzibar that things began to get really strange.
In a muddle of confusion, the British wrongly assumed Wainwright to be the leader of the group, owing to the fact he spoke English.
And before long the young African found himself on a ship bound for England, where he was one of the pall-bearer at Dr Livingstone’s state funeral in London.
At this point, his journal suddenly disappeared. It was alleged that it contained terrible truth about Dr Livingstone. There were whispers of a cover-up involving everyone from the Missionary Society to the British Government. , its whereabouts still remains a mystery.
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Kasaman

Elder Lister
We played hide and seek with KBS conductors.
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Can relate.... I had gone hunting huko ndenderu, she was stubborn with purpose, she wanted it during the moon light in green lodge .I knew the last KBS 107 at 10:3pm would drop me in the city ,but she was damn sweet ,never heard the bus arrive, nistukia ikienda . About metres fro the stage ! Wacha ni pige mbio, and just when I about kuindandia I tripped, had my knees and hands injured but I got it ! haki boy child tumepitia mengi
 

Ssabasajja

Elder Lister
KALULU an African boy who served as Sir Henry Morton Stanley's servant.
_____________________________________
Kalulu was a young East African slave given to Stanley by an Arab merchant while on his way to find Dr David Livingstone .
The boy's real name was Ndugu Mhali, but because Stanley didn't like this name he christened him Kalulu.He was also Stanley's adopted child
Between 1872 to 1873, Kalulu accompanied Stanley around Europe and America and during that time sat for a wax model along with Stanley which was installed at Madame Tussaud’s museum in London .
While in Europe Kalulu was presented to Emperor Napoleon and also walked alongside Livingstone’s casket in his London funeral. He was also enrolled in a school in England by Stanley.
The headmaster of the school where he was enrolled described him as clever and progressing in English.
After Dr Livingstone's death in 1874 Stanley left Britain for Africa accompanied by Kalulu to carry on from where Dr Livingstone had left.
In 1877 While in Africa Stanley embarked on an expedition into the Congo to try and find the Source of river Nile.
Unfortunately during this trip Kalulu died in a tragic canoe accident just at the age of 12 in Kalulu falls on the Congo River,the waterfall was named after him.

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HM Stanley was a savage.
 
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