Perhaps it’s age. Perhaps it’s fate. Perhaps it’s the amount of time I dedicate to watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on BBC Knowledge in the middle of the day. For some reason what started out for me as a mild fascination with history when I was a child is fast turning into a fixation.
Drum roll please. Introducing the man who started it all for me:
My Great-Grandfather, Mutambuka wa Rutogogo.
This is a touched up photograph of a much, much older one currently in the possession of the Rev.
Mutambuka wa Rutogogo, later christened Mark by clerics of the Church Missionary Society, was one of the greatest medicine men in the larger Karagwe region in the early 20th century.
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