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Jambo is a wildlife anthology television series broadcast on NBC from 1969 to 1971. [1] Intended for children, the show was hosted and narrated by actor Marshall Thompson. Spots were filmed on location in Africa. [2] The series was intended to be a companion of sorts to Thompson's series Daktari. Ivan Tors was creator and executive producer of ...
Jambo means "hello" in Swahili. The gorilla was born on 17 April 1961, in Zoo Basel, Basel, Switzerland, to mother Achilla and father Stephi. Stephi was acquired from the Columbus Zoo in Ohio. Stephi was captured in 1950 by Columbus resident and gorilla hunter Bill Said, with two other baby gorillas, in French Equatorial Africa.
Them Mushrooms is a musical band from Kenya, playing mostly Chakacha, some Benga and also some reggae. They are most famous for the Swahili 1982 song Jambo Bwana. The band is composed of Teddy Kalanda, Henry Ndenge Saha and Ben Mutwiwa. They mainly do covers of previously written hit songs. In 2009 bandleader John Katana was among four ...
Specifically, Jambo is a Swahili language word that belongs to noun classes 5-6 for "collectives". Jambo primarily means 'affair', in the sense of commercial, professional, public or personal business. Etymologically it is from amba (-amba) meaning to say. It is a cognate with Zulu. Secondary meanings include dealing with a thing, issue or matter.
Jambo Bwana" (in Swahili "Hello Sir") is a Kenyan pop song also popular in Tanzania. It was first released in 1982 by Kenyan band Them Mushrooms , and later covered by a number of other groups and artists, including Mombasa Roots , Safari Sound Band , Khadja Nin , Adam Solomon , Mani Kollengode, [1] [2] and the German group Boney M.
Safari Sound Band is a Kenyan hotel pop band. In over twenty years of activity, they were certified platinum four times, [1] and their recordings of Swahili classics such as "Jambo Bwana" (published with title "Jambo, Jambo") and "Malaika" are well-known. [citation needed] They have published a number of CDs, featuring cover versions of African ...
Syzygium jambos is a large shrub or small-to-medium-sized tree, typically 3 to 15 metres (10 to 49 feet) high, with a tendency to low branching. Its leaves and twigs are glabrous and the bark, though dark brown, is fairly smooth too, with little relief or texture. The leaves are lanceolate, 2 to 4 centimetres ( to inches) broad, 10 to 20 cm (4 ...
The word jamboree in English is used as a borrowed foreign word, with the ending -ree. The word jamboree is both a noun and a transitive verb, with a direct action of the root word jambo. [12] For example, an attendee of a jambo is a jamboree . Many, at this first "jamboree" or Scout gathering, did not fully capture the spirit of this then-new ...