Kalulu

Ndugu M’Hali or Kalulu ( – 28 March 1877) was an African slave and adopted child of the explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley. Although Kalulu died young, in his short life he visited Europe, America and the Seychelles. He had a book dedicated to him, a model in Madame Tussauds, and was a guest at David Livingstone's funeral.

Biography A studio picture of M’Hali and Stanley now in the Smithsonian Institution. Henry Morton Stanley was the adopted name of John Rowlands from North Wales. Stanley became famous for saying, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." M’Hali was born in Africa and became Henry Morton Stanley's favourite after being given to him at Tabora in Tanzania. M'Hali was freed but was renamed by Stanley. His original name was "Ndugu M’Hali", which meant "My friend's brother". The book has been called a homosexual love story,

Stanley was sent back to Africa under a mission supported by The Daily Telegraph in London and the New York Herald as an "ambassador of two great powers". He was to take with him an “army of peace and light,” and this included his protégé M’Hali. Stanley was to map central Africa and report on suspected slave traders, whom Stanley had lectured against whilst in England.

M'Hali died in "Kalulu Falls" (part of the Livingstone Falls on the Congo River), when one of the expedition's canoes was taken over the waterfall. He and four others were killed.