Walji Bhanji

Walji Bhanji

Place of longest stay

• Mombasa

Family tree

Siblings

Kassam Bhanji

Born in

1898: Walji Bhanji left Kutch and arrived with his family in Mombasa.

Walji Bhanji was the first Ithna-asheri to reach Nairobi. He got there on a donkey before the railway actually reached the site of the future city.

At the beginning of the century Bukoba was but a village. Dharamsi Khatau whose head office was in Mombasa opened a branch there in 1903. Other Ithna-asheris opened branch offices in turn Nasir Mawji (1903), Sheriff Jiwa (19o7), Walji Bhanji(1907) Abdullah Khimji (1908), Pir Bhai Ghulam Husain (1008), and Amersi Sunderji.