Sophia Mustafa (1922 – 1 September 2005) was a writer and politician of Kashmiri descent.
Mustafa was born Sophia Butt in India but grew up in Nairobi.
She married Abdulla Mustafa, a lawyer, and moved with him to Arusha, Tanganyika in 1948.
In 1958, she was elected to the Legislative Council of Tanganyika for the Arusha District as a member of TANU.
The small number of precedents included Mabel Dove Danquah (Gold Coast, 1954), Senedu Gebru (Ethiopia, 1957), and Ella Koblo Gulama (Sierra Leone, 1957).