billy sarro harrison and teddy kalanda harrison on the enduring appeal ofjambo bwana. this song put kenya on the map and its hook, hakuna matata, even made it into the lion king. that s all from this special edition of witness history, coming to you from the national museum in nairobi, kenya. we will be back next month with a selection of extraordinary accounts of women in history. for now, from me and the rest of the witness history crew, it s kwaheri goodbye. hello there. on wednesday, it was a lovely day across scotland and northern ireland. widespread sunshine and pretty
up in kenya. so we are caught in between. that was zamzam abdi gelle. and finally, a0 years ago, tourism here in kenya was booming, with visitors coming for the wildlife as well as its beautiful beaches. our next witnesses were making a living playing music at hotels when they were inspired to write a song which went on to become a global hit. this is the story ofjambo bwana. plays jambo bwana on saxophone. #jambo, jambo bwana! # habari gani, mzuri sana. # wageni, wakaribishwa. # kenya yetu, hakuna matata. # kenya nchi nzuri, hakuna matata. that s the way it went. the tourists were just crazy about this song. #jambo, jambo bwana! it went silver, then gold, then platinum.
but kenya was telling us the other day that what they want is to close the camps and take away the somali people living in the camps, back to somalia. newsreel: dadaab is the world s largest refugee camp, and now. kenya wants to close it down. many of them have never been anywhere else. where will i go back to? we are not kenyans, because kenya is telling us, you are refugees. but we are somali neither, because we were brought up in kenya. so we are caught in between. that was zamzam abdi gelle. and finally, a0 years ago, tourism here in kenya was booming, with visitors coming for the wildlife as well as its beautiful beaches. our next witnesses were making a living playing music at hotels when they were inspired to write a song which went on to become a global hit. this is the story ofjambo bwana. plays jambo bwana 0n saxophone
most kenyans say, ah, this is a song for foreigners, not for us kenyans, you know? but they are proud of it, that at least it has given some kind of identity to kenya, you know? any kenyan who goes overseas, they will always ask you, do you know that song, jambo bwana ? they start singing the song, you know? so that is a big honour for us. billy sarro harrison and teddy kalanda harrison on the enduring appeal ofjambo bwana. this song put kenya on the map and its hook, hakuna matata, even made it into the lion king. that s all from this special edition of witness history, coming to you from the national museum in nairobi, kenya. we will be back next month with a selection of extraordinary accounts of women in history. for now, from me and the rest of the witness history crew,
our next witnesses were earning a living playing music at hotels when they were inspired to write a song that would become a global hit. this is the story ofjambo bwana. #jambo,jambo bwana # habari gani # mzuri sa na # wageni, wakaribishwa # kenya yetu hakuna matata # kenya nchi nzuri # hakuna matata.# that s how it went. the tourists were crazy about this song. it went to silver, then gold, then it went platinum. that came as a complete surprise to me. i started the group at them mushrooms in 1972. me and him were working with the cement factory in mombasa. there was a lot of tourists coming into mombasa