there was a lot of tourists coming into mombasa, so it was a very vibrant scene in mombasa.f and kenyan music, or whatever, but when we realised that we could make more money and play for less time for tourists, we switched to play these cover versions of chart music from europe and from america. one night, i think it was late 1979, i was sitting at the pool bar after a performance, and there were these tourists in the pool, played around and joking, trying to speak swahili. and i got this idea, maybe we should write a song with the simplest words in swahili and get the tourists to learn swahili while they sang along and danced to our music. #jambo,jambo bwana # habari gani, mzuri sana... # it means, hello, mister. how are you? mzuri sana is a reply. very, very well, thank you. all guests and visitors are welcome to kenya. there are no problems in kenya. it is a very simple song. when we finished, another tourist would come and say, can you do this jambo, jambo? we had to do it about 20 times, and then the financial director of polygram said, here's my card. you call me. i w