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unusual facts about Tanzanian



Asha-Rose Migiro

Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born July 9, 1956 in Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician.

Bank of Baroda

In 1967 it suffered a second loss of branches when the Tanzanian government nationalised BoB’s three branches there (Dar es Salaam, Mwanga, and Moshi), and transferred their operations to the Tanzanian government-owned National Banking Corporation.

Ebrahim Hussein

Other plays written by Hussein include: Mashetani (1971), an overtly political play; Jogoo Kijijini (1976), an experiment in dramatic performance; and Arusi (1980), in which Hussein expresses disillusionment with the Tanzanian political theory Ujamaa.

Fundikira III

Abdallah Said Fundikira III (2 February 1921 – 6 August 2007) was the Ntemi (chief) of Unyanyembe 1957–1962, when he was deposed by the Tanzanian government.

Gabriel Ruhumbika

Ruhumbika's first novel, Village in Uhuru, was published in 1969; this was the second English-language Tanzanian novel, after Peter Palangyo's Dying in the Sun (1968).

Gertrude Mongella

In 1998 she became a member of the OAU sitting on the Women Committee for Peace and Development, In 1999 she was a member of the "Council of the Future", UNESCO, Paris, France, in 2000 She was a Member of the Tanzanian Parliament Ukerewe Constituency.

Igandu train disaster

The shortage of doctors at Dodoma hospital was so severe that the Tanzanian health minister, Mrs Anna Abdallah was obliged to help with the more than 400 people badly injured.

Jean Pruitt

In 1983 she was awarded the Tanzanian National Award by President Julius Nyerere for her contribution to the development of the Tanzanian Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO).

She began her activity in Tanzania in the Catholic Relief Services, operating in favor of the healthy development of Tanzanian youth and children.

Khaleej Sirte S.C.

After a 6-0 aggregate win over Tanzanian side Prisons FC in the first round, they were handed a tricky draw against Algerian giants ES Sétif.

Khalfan

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Tanzanian national, one of numerous al-Qaeda suspects

Kishumundu Secondary School

Kishumundu Secondary School is a private middle school in Kishumundu (east uru region), a small Tanzanian village at the slopes of the Kilimanjaru.

Malcolm Ronaldson

Ronaldson trained Tanzanian marathon runner John Stephen Akhwari who competed in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Michuzi Blog

2009: he announced his engagement to Tanzanian musician Rehema Chalamila (popularly known as Ray C).

Msasani

Most of these structures were built in an era of building liberalization initiated by former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi.

Music of Tanzania

Mr. II and Juma Nature are the most famous Tanzanian rappers; Mr II's (then known as 2-Proud) "Ni Mimi" (1995) was the first major hit for the field.

The multi-instrumentalist Hukwe Zawose, a member of the Gogo ethnic group, was the 20th century's most prominent exponent of Tanzanian traditional music.

North Mara Gold Mine

In 2009 a Tanzanian Member of Parliament, Harrison Mwakyembe, demanded the Mara Gold Mine be closed, due to the deaths of eighteen villagers from Nyamongo which had been attributed to drinking water polluted by the mine.

Streptocarpus

DNA studies have shown that, despite not having a twisted fruit, the genus Saintpaulia (African Violets) evolved from within the Tanzanian Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella.

Swaran Singh

He was a member of the eminent persons group on South Africa sponsored by the Commonwealth Institute that consisted of Malcolm Fraser who had been Prime Minister of Australia for eight years, General Obasanjo of Nigeria, Lord Barber who had been Edward Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer and was also chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, Dame Nita Barrow, Reverend Scott and John Malecela, a Tanzanian former government minister.

Tanzanian hip hop

Led by the Kwanza Unit, a group composed of many of the major artists, Swah rap sought to bring Tanzanian themes to their rap.

Tanzanite

Correct identification was also made by mineralogists at Harvard University, the British Museum, and Heidelberg University, but the very first person to get the identification right was Ian McCloud, a Tanzanian government geologist based in Dodoma.

Thomas Ulimwengu

Ulimwengu grew up in Dodoma, the Tanzanian capital, where he played for local club team Area C. At the age of 14 he was selected for the Dodoma Region U-17 team.


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