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13 unusual facts about Tanzania


Battle of Kisaki

The Battle of Kisaki was a confrontation between German and South Africa forces near the town of Kisaki, German East Africa, on 7–8 September 1916.

Dar es Salaam commuter rail

RAHCO, the holding company of TRL, issued a tender in September 2013 inviting bids for feasibility studies and the design of new railway lines from its central station to four destinations: Luguruni (Morogoro Road), Chamazi (Kilwa Road), Pugu (via Julius Nyerere International Airport) and Kerenge.

Hussein Nasser Walji

Hussein Nasser Walji (3 September 1920-17 December 2005) served as the president of Tanzania's Dar-as-Salaam Jamaat during the expansion of the community in the 1960s, and was involved in the establishment of Mehfil-e-Asgari.

Itaka

Itaka, Tanzania, an administrative ward in the Mbozi District of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania

Mbola

Mbola, Tanzania, a cluster of Millennium Villages in the Uyui district of Tanzania

Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies

The Moshi University College of Co-operative and Business Studies (MUCCoBS) is a constituent college of the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Moshi, Tanzania.

Mwenge University College of Education

The Mwenge University College of Education (MWUCE) is a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania in Moshi, Tanzania.

Sange

Sange, Tanzania, an administrative ward in the Ileje district of the Mbeya Region

Siku Njema

Written in the first person, the book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab.

Tanzania min tiger plan

Tanzania Mini Tiger Plan is an economic plan aimed at fostering development in Tanzania by increasing exports to the global market.

Union Day

"Union Day" on April 26 in Tanzania, commemorating the unification of Zanzibar and Tanganyika in 1964

United States Ambassador to Tanzania

An embassy in Dar es Salaam was established on December 9, 1961—independence day for Tanganyika.

Usambara Railway

A railway company was created in 1891 with the aim, to connect the port of Tanga at the Indian Ocean with the Lake Victoria by passing south of the Usambara Mountains.


Arusha District

As of 1994, Arusha District was the wealthiest district in Tanzania with 91,024 Tanzanian shillings.

Asaria

From there a large portion of them migrated to East Africa - namely to Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda and to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Ayi Kwei Armah

In the 1970s, he worked as a teacher in East Africa, at the College of National Education, Chang'ombe, Tanzania, and at the National University of Lesotho.

Azania

Modern identifications of Rhapta place it on the coasts of modern-day Tanzania—indicating that Azania referred to an area perhaps identical to the later Arab Zanj.

Azykh Cave

Archaeologists have suggested that the finds in the lowest layers of the cave are of a pre-Acheulean culture, one of the world's oldest (730,00-1,500,000 years) and in many ways similar to the Olduwan culture in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge and the culture which produced the famous Lascaux cave in southeastern France.

Bende people

The Bende are an ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.

Bujonde

Bujonde is an administrative ward in the Kyela district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Bupigu

Bupigu is an administrative ward in the Ileje district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Chwaka Bay

Chwaka Bay is a large indentation in the central east coast of the Tanzanian island of Unguja - the largest island of the Zanzibar Archipelago.

Daniel Musyoka Mutinda

He later joined the University of East Africa to pursue a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree at the faculty of law in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve

The Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve System (DMRS) is a group of marine wildlife reserves in Tanzania, situated off the coast of Dar es Salaam Region.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Fuoni

Fuoni is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Gairo

Gairo District, administrative district, Morogoro Region, central Tanzania

Gangwe Mobb

The group was established in late 90's soon after Kwanza Unit, Mr. II and other had popularized Swahili hip hop music in Tanzania.

George Simbachawene

George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene (born 5 July 1968) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kibakwe constituency since 2005.

Gogo people

The Gogo (or mgogo singular and Wagogo plural ) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.

Gregory Teu

Gregory George Teu (born 3 February 1951) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Mpwapwa constituency since 2010.

John S. Saul

He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, alongside activist-academics such as Giovanni Arrighi (with whom he wrote Essays on the Political Economy of Africa) and Walter Rodney; at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, alongside activist-academics such as Ruth First; and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.

Jyrki Otila

Otila worked as assistant office chief of YLE from 1965 to 1970, in the United Nations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1970 to 1973, in YLE in 1974, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as a development aid expert in Tanzania from 1975 to 1977, and as a factory chief for the Orion Corporation in Arusha, Tanzania from 1977 to 1980.

Khalfan

Salim Abdallah Khalfan, Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania

Kilimanjaro Expedition

Head explains the team's route to Kilimanjaro, which mostly consists of a way from Surrey to Rottingdean, with a giant leap from Rottingdean to Nairobi (Head's map of Britain cuts off there, and is overlying his map of Africa), down to Tanzania, and then asking from there.

Kimweri

Omari Kimweri (born 22 September 1982), an Australian boxer, born in Tanzania

Kinyasini

Kinyasini is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Linatella caudata

This species is distributed in European waters, the Western Atlantic, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.

Malangali

Malangali, Ileje, an administrative ward in Ileje District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania

Mangapwani

Mangapwani is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, the main island of Zanzibar.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Menstrual synchrony

Since then Mastsumoto and colleagues have reported estrous asynchrony in groups of free-living chimpanzees in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania.

Mizengo Pinda

Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda (born 12 August 1948) is a Tanzanian CCM politician who has been Prime Minister of Tanzania since 2008.

Montfort Agricultural Secondary School

Montfort Agricultural Secondary School is a secondary school in Rujewa, Tanzania.

Mutukula

Mutukula, Tanzania, a town in Kagera Region, northwestern Tanzania, on the border with Uganda

Mwananchi Communications

Having registered The Citizen with Tanzania Information Services (Maelezo) on 2 March 2001, the paper was only fully launched and published on September 16, 2004 to become the 5th English daily newspaper in the market.

Mzee Chillo

When he came back from Saudi Arabia, he became a high school teacher and taught in a couple of schools in Moshi, Tanzania, Tanzania.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Oreochromis korogwe

Oreochromis korogwe (Korogwe tilapia) is a species of cichlid native to Kenya and Tanzania where it occurs in the Pangani River system as well as the Zigi River.

P. magnus

Paragomphus magnus, a dragonfly species found in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

P. minutus

Phrynobatrachus minutus, a frog species found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Roman Kejžar

At age thirty-four, Kejzar made his official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed sixty-second out of a hundred runners in the men's marathon, with a time of 2:26:38, fourteen seconds behind Tanzania's Zebedayo Bayo.

Seifu Mekonnen

Mekonnen received awards and recognition from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, president Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, president Idi Amin of Uganda, and president Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.

Transport in Burundi

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

Unity Bridge 2

The Unity Bridge 2 is an international bridge and border crossing between Kivikoni, Songea Rural District in Tanzania and Lupilichi in Mozambique.

Vanessa Mdee

Vanessa Mdee was born on June 7, 1988, and grew up in the Arusha, a small town in the Northern region of Tanzania.

Walter Rodney

He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania during the period 1966-67 and later in Jamaica at his alma mater UWI Mona.

White Line Hotels

White Line Hotels are located in fourteen cities across Europe, as well as in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania.