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11 unusual facts about Tanzania


Dalbergia melanoxylon

Clarinets for Conservation is based in Moshi, Tanzania and aims to raise awareness and promote conservation of Mpingo through music education.

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

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.

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.

Southern Highlands

Southern Highlands, Tanzania, Africa, a region of rich biodiversity at the southern tip of the East African Rift

Tangasaurus

All specimens were collected by F. P. Mennell in 1922 at the Mizimbazi River near Tanga City, northeastern Tanzania.

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.


Ann Claire Williams

For several years, Williams has also served as a member of international training delegations that have traveled to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Hague.

Arusha District

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

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.

Bende people

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

Bernd Heine

In 1990 he received the Kenya Kiswahili Association Award in Nairobi, in 1994 he was Fellow of the Australian Research Council, in 1995 he received an award from the National Kiswahili Council of the Republic of Tanzania.

Bonde la Usongwe

Bonde la Usongwe is an administrative ward in the Mbeya Rural district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Busole

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

Chukwani

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

Commercial Bank of Africa Group

Commercial Bank of Africa was established in 1962 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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.

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.

East African Legislative Assembly

The first Speaker of the Assembly was the Honourable Abdulrahman Kinana of 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.

Gregory Teu

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

Harold K. Schneider

Schneider focused on East Africa in his field work, and was especially influenced by his study of the Turu in Tanzania.

Hugo van Lawick

They married on 28 March 1964 in Chelsea Old Church, London and lived in Tanzania for many years, both at Gombe and elsewhere on other research projects.

International Tea Day

International Tea Day is a day observed since 2005 in many tea producing countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, India and Tanzania.

Jackson's chameleon

The subspecies T. j. merumontanus can only be found on Mount Meru and the Arusha Region 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.

Kitogani

Kitogani 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

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.

Maurice Henry Dorman

Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.

Misungwi

Misungwi or Missungwi or Isungwi is a town in Misungwi District, Mwanza Region, 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.

Mombasa Air Services

Air Charter services throughout East Africa but mainly to Amboseli, Tsavo, Mara, Samburu, Lamu and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and in Tanzania Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti plus Zanzibar.

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.

Nelly Kamwelu

Nelly Alexandra Kamwelu (born 1991) is a Tanzanian model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe Tanzania and Miss Southern Africa International titles in 2011.She represented her country in Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil, Miss International 2011 in China, Miss Earth 2011 in Manila, Philippines, and Miss Tourism Queen International in China.

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

Seth Sendashonga

After Tanzania agreed to host Sendashonga's rebel training camps, he used his contacts with Prunier to go to Uganda and talk to Salim Saleh, President Yoweri Museveni's brother, on 3 May 1998.

Stephen O'Brien

He was born in Mtwara, Tanzania and educated at Loretto School in Mombasa, at the Handbridge School (Chester), the Heronwater School (Abergele), Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Toussaintia orientalis

In Tanzania, there is intensive agriculture in Ifakara and the species may also have now disappeared from that locality.

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.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1189

United Nations Security Council resolution 1189, adopted unanimously on 13 August 1998, after expressing its deep disturbance at the bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 August 1998, the Council strongly condemned the terrorist attacks and called on countries to adopt measures to prevent further incidents.

Valerie Davey

After her marriage she moved to Tanzania and taught at the Ilboru Secondary School on Ilboru Road in Arusha.

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.

Wanji people

The Wanji are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Makete District, in the Kipengere Mountains of Njombe Region in southern Tanzania.

White Line Hotels

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

White-spotted Izak

The white-spotted Izak or African spotted catshark, Holohalaelurus punctatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Indian Ocean off Natal, South Africa, southern Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania between latitudes 4° S and 37° S, at depths of between 220 and 440 m.

Zaramo people

The Zaramo are a Bantu people who are based in Dar es Salaam Region and Pwani Region in Tanzania, particularly in the area around the present day city of Dar es Salaam, the Pugu Hills, and Bagamoyo.