He was a handsome, slender, tall young man with a deep voice but he was also shy and timid among strangers leading his father to decide that the boy was too weak and feminine to be groomed to become king. By tradition, Luta, his elder brother, was the heir to the throne. However, Wamanya tricked her husband into believing that Luta wanted to overthrow him.
Shiundu disowned Luta and denied him any rights to the throne and royal property. He was crowned as Nabongo and dressed in the royal regalia. He became the 17th Nabongo of the Wanga kingdom automatically becoming the custodian of the Wanga customs and traditions, safeguarding the royal regalia consisting of the copper bracelets, sacred spears likutusi and lishimbishira.
Furthermore, the sacred spears which were described as being of ancient origin could cause conflict if a man took them outside and pointed them in different directions.
These royal regalia were closely guarded and only a few selected members of the royal family could hold them. Nabongo Mumia was considered a very popular living legend and a great king by his subjects because his style of ruling was different from that of those who had gone before him.
As King, while in his thirties, he was very responsible and efficient, even listening to the common people which had never been done before. Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown empty parameter "residence". Daily Nation. East African Educational Publishers. ISBN The Standard Kenya. April 24, aged He ruled the Kingdom for 67 years from to in one of the longest reigns in African history.
The Wanga Kingdom was the most highly developed and centralised kingdom in Kenyan history before the advent of British colonialism.
When the British arrived in Western Kenya in , they found the Wanga Kingdom as the only organised state with a centralised hereditary monarch in the whole of what later came to be known as Kenya. Mumia's royal background caused a dilemma to the colonial officers. His daughter who died in at the age of
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