Bwana Kheri

Bwana Kheri
Bornc.1810
Mombasa
Diedc.1850
Taita Taveta County, Kenya
Occupation(s)Explorer and guide

Bwana Kheri (born in the 1810s) was a Swahili long-distance caravan trader who lived in present day Mombasa. He is known for guiding into the interior of the present day northern Tanzania after he guided the German missionary Johannes Rebmann of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS) in late 1848.[1]

  1. ^ Pouwels, Randall L. (1987). "Reviewed work: Arab versus European: Diplomacy and War in Nineteenth-Century East Central Africa, by Norman Robert Bennett". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 21 (2): 270–271. doi:10.2307/484381. JSTOR 484381.