John Ssebunya
Milly Sebba was a Ugandan villager who found a little boy living with a pack of monkeys when she was looking for firewood in 1991. When she saw him, she immediately went back to her village for help. Eventually, she and others cornered the boy in a tree and brought him back. The boy was John Ssebunya. He had long, rounded nails, was not house trained, and walking on his knees had made them white. He had last been seen in 1988 when he was only two or three years old.
John said he remembered monkeys coming up to him when he had been lost for a couple of days and feeding him nuts, roots, cassava, and sweet potatoes. There were five monkeys: two young ones, and three adults. They kept their distance at first but after a few weeks, taught him how to climb trees, travel, and hunt for food with them. In October of 1999, when John was about 12 or 13 years old, he was a part of the Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir that traveled to Britain to perform.
