Sophia Mustafa
Sophia Mustafa (1922 – September 1, 2005) was a writer and politician of Kashmiri descent.
She was born Sophia Butt in India but grew up in Nairobi. She married Abdulla Mustafa, a lawyer, and moved with him to Arusha, Tanganyika in 1948. The couple later moved to Dar es Salaam. She fought with Julius Nyerere for the country's independence. In 1958, she was elected to the Legislative Council of Tanganyika for the Arusha District as a member of TANU. She served in the country's parliament (the country later became Tanzania) until 1965 when her husband was called to the bench.[1][2][3]
In 1961 her memoir, The Tanganyika Way (OCLC 563174097) was published.[1]
In 1989, she moved to Canada with her husband, settling in Brampton. Mustafa published a novel In the Shadow of Kirinyaga in 2002 (ISBN 9781894770033). She died in Brampton in 2005. A second novel The Broken Reed was published posthumously in the same year (ISBN 9789987411177).[2][1]
References
- ^ a b c "Sophia Mustafa". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. September 1, 2005.
- ^ a b "Sophia Mustafa". Asian Heritage in Canada. Ryerson University Library.
- ^ Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination. Columbia University Press. 2013. pp. 154–60. ISBN 0231535597.
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