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Story of an African Slave.
The boy pictured below was called Kalulu, a 12 year old enslaved African boy .
He was sold to British Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, by an Arab merchant in Zanzibar.
His real name was Ndugu Mhali ( Ndugu means brother or comrade in Swahili), but Stanley didn’t like the name and renamed him Kalulu.
Between 1872 to 1873, Kalulu accompanied Stanley around Europe and America. During this tour, Kalulu posed for a wax model which was later installed at the Madame Tussaud’s museum in London .
Stanley briefly enrolled Kalulu in a school in Wandsworth, South West London, where the headmaster noted that he was ” clever and progressing in English.”
After the death of Dr David Livingstone in Zambia in 1874 , Stanley who was keen to carry on with Livingstone’s exploration work, withdrew Kalulu from the school and the two returned to Africa.
In 1877, Stanley accompanied by Kalulu as his servant, embarked on an expedition in the Congo to find out the source of River Nile.
Unfortunately during this trip, Kalulu died in a tragic accident after his canoe plunged hundreds of feet down a waterfall on the Congo River. The waterfall was later named ‘ Kalulu Falls ‘ in his honour.
