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Their son, Juma Mbotela, later married Grace David, a freed slave from Seychelles who had been owned by the Sultan of Zanzibar. From this lineage came James Mbotela, Leonard’s father. Given this ...

The two had a son Juma Mbotela who later married a freed slave from Seychelles Grace David who was the Sultan of Zanzibar slave in the early 1900s this was Lenny's grandfather from the son of Juma and ...