Before the colonial era Mwanza Region was under the Sukuma, Kerewe, Kara and Zinza empires.
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Other ethnic groups in the region, in much smaller proportions, include the Zinza, Haya, Sumbwa, Nyamwezi, Luo, Kurya, Jita, and Kerewe.
Mwanza | Peter Mwanza |
Born in Mwanza, Tanzania and having finished his primary studies at Kurasini Primary School in Tanzania, he moved with his mother and siblings to Stockholm, Sweden.
Loyola School is a government English-medium secondary school in the Pasiansi ward of Nyamagana District, Mwanza, Tanzania.
Magu or Nyalikungu in Kwimba District, Tanzania was a small settlement village on the southwest coast of Lake Victoria and an important trading post for tourists travelling from Mwanza to the Serengeti National Parks.
Born in Zambia, Mwanza began playing football for local side Power Dynamos' youth team when he was still a schoolboy at Chamboli Secondary School in Kitwe, where he excelled in soccer.
The club known then as Luo Union F.C. and, subsequently Luo United F.C., was founded in 1957 in Mwanza, Tanzania, as a welfare club of Luo Union, East Africa.
He taught school at Bukumbi (20 miles from Mwanza City) before moving to the United States to study for his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).
Born in Lusaka in 1988, Yvonne was raised as the daughter to the Honorable Member of Parliament Mr. Michael Mwale and former songstress Jelita Mwanza in Petauke (Zambia).