Mombasa Roots including Jacky Freeman (vocals), Salim Karama (drums), Hassan Swaleh (keyboards), Edward Toya Farrar (guitar) and Mohamed Khalifa (percussions). For a while, the personnel also included the Nazareth Sisters, a female duet from Mombasa, as well as Saeed Tito, Catherine Wekesa, Adam Solomon, and Susan Kahumbu. Mombasa Roots Mombasa Roots (or Mombasa Roots Band) are a Kenyan afropop/hotel pop musical group. They have recorded some of the most successful hit singles in Kenyan pop music, such as "Disco Chakacha" and "Kata". Their most famous album is "Lele Mama". The band was founded in 1977 by the "Juma Brothers" from Mombasa, i.e.,
One-Way Ticket to Mombasa girl, met at the high school. Together with Jusa, they go to Lapland where Kata has her summer job. In Jusa's wild company, Pete experiences something which he never felt before as they decide to take a trip to Mombasa via Lapland, together with Kata, as this is the last Jusa's wish before his death. Jusa will never see the dreamed beach of Mombasa, as he dies, in company of Kata and Pete, on a Finnish beach, but not before having experienced love for the first time thanks to Kata and Pete's complicity... One-Way Ticket to Mombasa One-Way Ticket to