Ndugu M’Hali or Kalulu (c. 1865 – 28 March 1877) was an African slave and adopted child of the explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley.

[citation needed] Kalulu dined with members of society but often felt he was being humiliated as a result of a previous racist encounter.

Stanley said of Kalulu that he had "taken him to England and the United States, and whom I had placed in an English school for eighteen months.

"[3]: 51 Stanley was sent back to Africa under a mission supported by The Daily Telegraph in London and the New York Herald as an “ambassador of two great powers.” He was to take with him an “army of peace and light,” and this included his protégé Kalulu.

[3]: 264–265  After learning of the tragedy, Stanley vowed to rid the empire of its only remaining slave master, the one they called 'Marsh'.