Salum Barwany Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Member of Parliament CV. 2010. Parliament of Tanzania. 7 November 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131109144126/http://www.parliament.go.tz/index.php/members/mpcvs/1639/2010-2015. 9 November 2013.
  2. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/albino-tanzania-witchcraft-fuelled-persecution-leads-mutilation-murder-1505041 Albinism in Tanzania
  3. Web site: Tanzanians elect first albino to parliament . 2 November 2010 . BBC News . 15 October 2015.
  4. Web site: Tanzania Elects First Albino MP . The World Post . 3 November 2010 . . 15 October 2015.