In the same year, Whittaker (colloquially named Roger Waithaka by some locals) was demobilised. "Despite fighting with the British colonial army in Kenya, he is also very popular in the country.

Kenyan-born British folk and country singer, Roger Whittaker has died at the age of 87. He was born in Nairobi, in 1936, although his parents were from Staffordshire, England. In Kenya ...