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Nabongo Mumia: powerful King of the Wanga Kingdom

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Nabongo Mumia Shiundu was the 7th King of the Wanga Kingdom during the pre-colonial Kenya. The Wanga Kingdom was at the time the most advanced and organised Kingdom in Kenya economically, politically and even military-wise.

At the beginning of the British colonialism, the white administrators turned his role to be that of a paramount chief in charge of the expansive Kingdom which transcended through Kenya to Uganda.

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