Watoro
The Swahili term watoro (singular mtoro ), derived from the verb kutoroka for "run away", was used to describe runaway slaves in East Africa in the 19th century.
Watoro communities emerged mainly during times when the slave-driven plantation economy was expanding. The important settlement of Makorora in Tanzania was created in the context of an expansion of sugar cultivation in Pangani . There is also said to have been a larger Watoro community in the northern hinterland of Tanga .
In Kenya there were a large number of watoro in Witu on the island of Lamu . In southern Somalia , slaves who had escaped from the plantations on the coast settled in the remote area of Gosha in the Jubba Valley . Historically they were also known as watoro, today they are known as Somali bantu .
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- Jan-Georg Deutsch: Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa , 2006, ISBN 9780852559857 (p. 75)