The untold story of former Macho US president Teddy Roosevelt who came to Kenya, got extremely shit faced at the bar and stole not one but two *lions* on his way home

Before the era of socialites, big bums bums, snap chat and way before narcissism became every Kenyan’s second name, macho men used to rule and roost in these lands.

Macho men like Teddy Roosevelt, the youngest person to assume the US presidency. A cowboy by profession, he was president between 1904 and 1908 and during that tenure he got do a lot of ditzy things.

One of them that never made history books until recently courtesy of Owaah was a drunken spree in Nairobi that turned into a rampage and almost caused a civil uprising.

An avid outdoorsman, he went on two long expeditions, one in Africa in 1909 and the other to the Amazon rainforest in 1912. He almost dies in the latter but had mad fun in the former.

He had written to kenya’ number 1 socialite at the time, Lord McMillan and informed him that he was coming to Kenya for one and one thing only….to get shit faced crazy…why? Because McMillan was a renowned party animal having help epic parties that included wife swapping.

So in 1909, Roosevelt alongside his son and other adventure seekers landed at the port of Mombasa to a great entourage of led by the Deputy Governor at the time.

Their host was of course McMillan, who owned a whooping   19, 000-acre estate in Ol Donyo Sabuk and a townhouse at Chiromo. The area his farm covered included the land that is now Juja, then known as Weru wa Ndarugo. On it, he built a magnificent estate house and hosted some of the craziest parties of the first decades of colonial history in Kenya.

Roosevelt and his son were staying at the Town House due to their close access to Norfolk which was number one party spot for all the colonial settlers where they could indulge and drink themselves silly.

One on those nights, they really got shit faced and decided to do the unthinkable.

They decided to steal a bunch of stone walls from the current Ismaili Mosque on Moi Avenue. They stopped the car, and in what must have been an adrenaline-rush moment, stole the pair that had been placed on either side of the mosques gate. No one heard a thing, but the mosque officials woke up the next morning to two empty pedestals and that’s when the Ismailia community went berserk.

What followed next…you’ll just have to continue here.