Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Salum Barwany | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Lindi Town |
Term Start: | November 2010 |
Term End: | November 2015 |
Predecessor: | Mohammed Abdulaziz |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1959 |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Party: | CUF |
Alma Mater: | Mingoyo Primary School Mkonge Secondary School |
Salum Khalfan Barwany or Salum Khalfani Bar'wani (born 30 June 1959) is a Tanzanian CUF politician and Member of Parliament for Lindi Town constituency.[1] He is the first Tanzanian MP with albinism to be elected to parliament.[2]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Tanzania (Swahili: Bunge la Tanzania) on 2 November 2010 from the district of Lindi Urban in the far south-east, and is the first albino to be elected to the Bunge in the country's history[3] [4] (the first to sit in the legislature was a woman, Al-Shymaa Kway-Geer, who appointed to the Bunge by the President, two years earlier).
Upon his election, Bar'wani stated:
Tanzania is a country noted both for a high incidence of albinism, and persecution of people with albinism, especially by a cult of witchdoctors with considerable influence and power in rural areas.