Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari

LC control no.	n 81034660
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bakari, Mtoro bin Mwinyi
Associated country	Germany
Birth date	1869~
Death date	1927-07-14
Place of birth	Tanzania
Affiliation	Universität Hamburg School of Oriental Languages (Berlin, Germany)
Profession or occupation	Educators Consultants Travel writers Authors
Found in	His The customs of the Swahili people, c1981: t.p. (Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 9, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bakari, Mtoro bin Mwinyi; Mtoro Bakari; educator, consultant, travel writer, author; born c.1869 in Tanzania; left East Africa for Germany and called himself Mtoro Bakari (1900); grew up in a Muslim family and identified himself with Islam and Swahili culture; began to learn Arabic in a Qur'an school, studied higher Islamic sciences; worked as a tax collector (1898); was the main author of the Desturi za Wasuaheli (Swahili Customs) published in Swahili and German (1903); taught Swahili at the School of Oriental Languages (SOL) in Berlin and African languages at the Hamburg Colonial Institute (HCI); took a leading role in a colloquium for missionary students and discussed various aspects of Islam and Christianity with Protestant clerics and missionary students (1905-1906 and 1908-1909); died 14 July 1927)