*The origin of the word UNGA*
The word unga was never a Swahili word but a company acronym. Unga stands for The Uasin NGishu Growers Association(UNGA)- a syndicate of White Farmers set up before WW1, to grow maize beyond Eldoret, for Bill Spencer, a South African Miller, who had built a flour mill run by a water turbine set up on the rapid flowing Sosiani River. The local Nandi people were amazed at this invention, but could not pronounce the word 'Turbine', and called it 'Turbo', by which name the area is still called today. Bill Spencer milled the maize and sold it in 2kg bags with the label U.N.G.A. on the packet, which eventually became the generic Swahili word for maize flour.
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