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MOHAMED-BAQUIR ALLOO​

MOHAMED-BAQUIR ALLOO Mohamed-Baquir was the ninth child of Kassamali Jaffer Alloo (Bapa Pemba) and Kulsum Hirji Gowhar (Bibi Chachi). Known simply as Baquir, he was born in Zanzibar in 1928. His grandfather Jaffer Alloo had emigrated from India around the 1870s and established a successful business in Zanzibar trading in dates, copra, cloves and dry grains. Baquir studied to Grade 12, a rare achievement in those days when most Khoja boys did not aspire to study past Grade 8. He joined the family business after finishing studies but supplemented his education by attending private classes in accounting. At the Jaffer…

ZAINAB KASSAMALI JAFFER ALLOO (1926 – 1991)​

ZAINAB KASSAMALI JAFFER ALLOO (1926 – 1991)​ Zainab was the seventh child of Kassamali Jaffer Alloo (Bapa Pemba) and Kulsum Hirji Gowhar (Bibi Chachi). She was born in Sokomohogo locality in Stone Town Zanzibar in July 1926. Like most of the Khoja Ithna-asheri girls of that period in Zanzibar, she studied only up to Grade 4. The family elders in that era believed that, unlike their male siblings, daughters belonged within the confines of a family home to be trained in the finer art of looking after their family when they are married. The elders believed exposure to western style…

MURTAZA SHERALI KASSAMALI

MURTAZA SHERALI KASSAMALI JAFFER ALLOO Murtaza Sherali Kassamali Jaffer ALLOO March 10, 1945 – June 27, 2019 We knew him as a diminutive man with a big heart – he was a glue that bound the Alloo Family together. Murtaza was a man who touched many lives. He was a role model and patriarch to so many of us, teaching us the value of hard work and familial relations while maintaining an unparalleled zest for learning. Wise and measured, he had a unique ability to see different points of view – a trait that earned him the respect of…

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