Isaya Mwita Charles is a Tanzanian politician planning and serving as the 17th and current
Mayor of Dar es Salaam since March 21, 2016. Prior to his appointment as mayor, he served at the
Temeke
Temeke District (officially known as Temeke Municipal Council ) is one of five district in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with Kinondoni to the far north of the city, and Ilala in the downtown of Dar es Salaam. To the east is the Indian Ocean and to t ...
Municipal Council as a cashier before contesting the general election for the Vijibweni Ward representative as Councilor at
Kigamboni District in
Dar es Salaam.
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Political views
Isaya Mwita Charles is the Lord Mayor of Dar es Salaam City in The United Republic of Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
and a member of the CHADEMA, Isaya Mwita Charles was elected a Councilor
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Canada
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on 2015. On 21 March 2016 he was officially elected as the Mayor
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of Dar es Salaam City Council.
Early life
Isaya Mwita Charles was born in Tarime District
Tarime District is one of the seven districts of the Mara Region of Tanzania, East Africa. It was previously known as the "North Mara District". Its district capital is Tarime town. It is bordered from the north to east by the Kenyan districts o ...
, Mara the then Musoma Region, on 28 February 1974
Education
From 1994 to 1997 Isaya Mwita Charles attended Secondary School in Tarime district and was awarded a certificate of Secondary Education (CSE). Between July 2005 to May 2007, he attended the Aramain Secondary School where award a certificate of advance certificate of secondary Education (ACSE). That was not the end, the late October 2008 to June 2011 he completed his first degree at the Mwalim
Julius K. Nyerere University.
Work
Criticism of creationism
Isaya Mwita Charles is a prominent critic of creationism, a religious belief that human
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ity, life
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, and the universe
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were created not for anything but to live together as one community and to share, exchange, explaining and to trust each other as the son and daughter of Male and a Female. Due to that philosophy as a Lord Mayor he decided to establish a common creatives to people creating and sharing responsibility, credibility and accountability.
Personal life
Isaya Mwita Charles is married.
References
External links
1968 births
University of Dar es Salaam alumni
Living people
Mayors of Dar es Salaam
People from Mara Region
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