Ibrahim Lila
- Business- Ivory Trader
- Siblings
The German Colonial Handbook 1903 mentions the firm of "Ibrahim Lila" as being ivory merchants in Bagamoyo in 1903.
He is also listed in the German Colonial Handbook 1908.
German Colonial Manual Supplement 1903
List of some Bagamoyo Khoja Merchants,listed by trade. pg 121
German Colonial Handbook 1908
Indian Traders Bagamoyo 1908
German Colonial Handbook, page 1 1908
Among the prominent Indians of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community, I remember a number by names, and I shall enumerate some of them. Bandali Remtullah as Mukhi was their representative. Others were Alidina Visram, Ibrahim Lila, Kanji Hansraj, the heir of Jan Hansraj, Dhalla Bhimji, Daramsi Haschem, and Jaffer Dossa Thawer, Jaffer Remtullah, Pardan Mohamed, Abdullah Allarakia, Merali Remtullah, Jaffer Somji, Ali Siwji, Ismail Jiwani, Ali Somji, Ibrahim Hasim, Saleh Siwji, and many others.
In 1899, there were 401 brick houses in the town of Bagamoyo, belonging almost entirely to members of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community. In addition, there were 2431 native houses with makuti roofs, built along streets which were already comparatively straight in those times. Besides, there were two large and magnificent houses which had been given as a present to the German administrative authorities by the Indian Sewa Hadji.
By Otto Mahnke, German Colonial Official- reprinted from Simerge.
