Watoro

" Run away " with the Swahili term Watoro (singular Mtoro ) derived from the verb kutoroka for, runaway slaves in East Africa were referred to in the 19th century.

Communities of Watoro exist primarily in times in which the powered slave plantation economy was expanded. So the important settlement of Makorora in Tanzania was established in the context of an expansion of sugar cultivation in Pangani. Also in the northern hinterland of Tanga there should have been a greater Watoro community.

In Kenya, there was a greater number of Watoro in witu on the island of Lamu. In southern Somalia could be from the plantations on the coast escaped slaves in remote area Gosha in the valley of the Lower Jubba. They were also historically referred to as Watoro, today they are known as the Somali Bantu.

Swell

• The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, ISBN 9780714654867 (p. 61)
• Jan- Georg German Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa, 2006, ISBN 9780852559857 (p. 75)