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Duga, Tanga District
Duga (''Kata ya Duga '', in Swahili) is an administrative ward in Tanga City Council of Tanga Region in Tanzania. Mwanzange ward encircles the ward on both the north and west sides. Mabawa is to its east. Tangasisi ward is to the south. The ward covers an area of , and has an average elevation of . The late Shaaban Robert, the national poet had a home in Duga ward and its the wards largest attraction. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 18,704. Administration The postal code for Duga Ward is 21114. The ward is divided into the following neighborhoods (''Mitaa''): * Duga Barabarani * Duga Dampo * Duga Mpya * Duga Viwanjani * Jaje * Magomeni "A" * Magomeni "B" * Magomeni "C" * Majengo "A" * Majengo "B" * Majengo "C" * Mapinduzi * Mji Mwwema * Mwakizaro "B" Government The ward, like every other ward in the country, has local government offices based on the population served.''The Duga Ward'' administration building houses a court as per the Ward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wards Of Tanzania
The administrative divisions of Tanzania are controlled by Part I, Article 2.2 of the Constitution of Tanzania.Article 2.2 provides: ''For the purpose of the efficient discharge of the functions of the Government of the United Republic or of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, the President may, in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law or provisions of such law as may be enacted by Parliament, divide the United Republic into regions, districts and other areas: Provided that the President shall first consult with the President of Zanzibar before dividing Tanzania Zanzibar into regions, districts or other areas.'' Tanzania is divided into thirty-one regions of Tanzania, regions (''mkoa'' in Swahili language, Swahili). Each region is subdivided into districts of Tanzania, districts (''wilayah, wilaya'' in Swahili). The districts are sub-divided into division (country subdivision), divisions (''tarafa'' in Swahili) and further into ward (electoral subdivision), local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanga District
Tanga City Council (''Halimashauri ya Jiji la Tanga'', in Swahili language, Swahili) is one of eleven administrative Districts of Tanzania, districts of Tanga Region in Tanzania. The District covers an area of of which includes the historic city of Tanga, Tanzania, Tanga and the Port of Tanga. Tanga district is bordered to the north by Mkinga District, to the east by the Indian Ocean, to the south and west by Muheza District. The district is comparable in size to the land area of Guam. The administrative seat is the ward Central, Tanga District, Central . The district is the administrative and economic center of Tanga Region. In Swahili language, Swahili, the word ''Tanga'' means "sail". The City was also the theater for the battle of Tanga. According to the 2022 census, the district has a total population of 393,429. Administrative subdivisions As of 2012, Tanga District was administratively divided into 24 Administrative divisions of Tanzania#Wards, wards. As of 2022, Tanga Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaaban Bin Robert
Shaaban bin Robert, also known as Shaaban Robert (1 January 1909 – 20 June 1962), was a Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist who supported the preservation of Tanzanian verse traditions. Robert is celebrated as one of the greatest Tanzanian Swahili thinkers, intellectuals and writers in East Africa and has been called "poet laureate of Swahili" and is also known as the "Father of Swahili." He is also honoured as the national poet. Biography Shaaban was born to a father of Yao decent and mother of Digo heritage at village of Vibamba, Tangasisi ward of Tanga District, located south of Tanga City in Tanga Region, Tanzania (then German East Africa). The surname Robert is a name of a British colonial officer who requested his parent to name him after him. Thus in real sense, Robert was his second name (not his surname or last name), his first name being Shaaban. Shaaban himself for a time wrote it 'Roberts' rather than 'Robert'. From 1922 to 1926 he was educated in Dar es Sala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Tanzania
Tanzania is administratively divided into thirty-one regions (''wikt:mkoa, mkoa''). History * In 1975, Tanzania had 25 regions. In the 1970s, the name of the Ziwa Magharibi Region (West Lake Region) changed to Kagera Region. * In 2002, Manyara Region was created out of part of Arusha Region. * In 2012, four regions were created: Geita, Katavi, Njombe, and Simiyu. * In 2016, Songwe Region was created from the western part of Mbeya Region. List of regions Tanzania is subdivided into 31 administrative regions. See also *Districts of Tanzania *List of regions of Tanzania by Human Development Index *List of regions of Tanzania by GDP *List of regions of Tanzania by poverty rate *ISO 3166-2:TZ Notes References {{Articles on first-level administrative divisions of African countries Regions of Tanzania, Subdivisions of Tanzania Lists of administrative divisions, Tanzania, Regions Administrative divisions in Africa, Tanzania 1 First-level administrative divisions by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanga Region
Tanga Region () is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions of Tanzania, regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Burundi. The regional capital is the municipality of Tanga, Tanzania, Tanga city. Located in northeast Tanzania, the region is bordered by Kenya and Kilimanjaro Region to the north; Manyara Region to the west; and Morogoro Region, Morogoro and Pwani Region, Pwani Regions to the south. It has a coastline to the east with the Indian Ocean. According to the 2022 national census, the region had a population of 2,615,597. History The most noteworthy feature of Tanga's history is its sovereignty. The earliest inhabitants were the Bantu peoples, Bantu, who broke into several ethnic groups: the Shambaa people, Sambaa, Digo people, Digo, Bondei people, Bondei, Ngulu people, Nguu, Segeju people, Segeju and Zigua people, Zigua communities. In the Middle Ages the Swahili people, Swahili settled in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Tanzania
As of 2021, there are 31 regions of Tanzania, regions (Swahili: mkoa, plural mikoa) of Tanzania which are divided into 184 districts (Swahili: wilayah, wilaya). In 2016, Songwe Region was created from the western part of Mbeya Region. The districts are each administered by a district council. Cities are separately administered by their own councils, and while administratively within a region, are not considered to be located within a district. The districts are listed below, by unofficial area then region: Ten most populated districts # Kinondoni District, Kinondoni Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam Region (1,775,049 inhabitants) # Temeke District, Temeke Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam Region (1,368,881 inhabitants) # Ilala District, Ilala Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam Region (1,220,611 inhabitants) # Geita District, Geita District Council, Geita Region (807,619 inhabitants) # Sengerema District, Sengerema District Council, Mwanza Region (663,034 inhabitants) # Muleba D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ethnic Groups In Tanzania
Tanzania’s population comprises more than 120 ethnic groups, with no single group forming a majority, contributing to a diverse cultural and linguistic landscape without including ethnic groups that reside in Tanzania as refugees from conflicts in nearby countries. These ethnic groups are of Bantu people, Bantu origin, with large Nilotic languages, Nilotic-speaking, moderate indigenous, and small non-African minorities. The country lacks a clear dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed by the Nyakyusa people, Wanyakyusa, and the Chagga people, Chagga. Unlike its neighbouring countries, Tanzania has not experienced large-scale ethnic conflicts, a fact attributed to the unifying influence of the Swahili language. The ethnic groups mentioned here are mostly differentiated based on Ethnolinguistic group, ethnolinguistic lines. They may sometimes be referred to together wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swahili People
The Swahili people (, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area encompassing the East African coast across southern Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and northern Mozambique, and various archipelagos off the coast, such as Zanzibar, Lamu, and the Comoro Islands. The original Swahili distinguished themselves from other Bantu peoples by self-identifying as Waungwana (the civilised ones). In certain regions, such as Lamu Island, this differentiation is even more stratified in terms of societal grouping and dialect, hinting at the historical processes by which the Swahili have coalesced over time. More recently, through a process of Swahilization, this identity extends to any person of African descent who speaks Swahili as their first language, is Muslim, and lives in a town of the main urban centres of most of modern-day Tanzania and coastal Kenya, northern Mozambique, or the Comoros. The name ''Swahili' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digo People
The Digo (''Wadigo'' in Swahili language, Swahili) are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based near the Indian Ocean coast between Mombasa in southern Kenya and northern Tanga, Tanzania, Tanga in Tanzania. In 1994 the Digo population was estimated to total 305,000, with 217,000 ethnic Digo living in Kenya and 88,000 (1987 estimate) in Tanzania. Digo people, nearly all Muslims, speak the Digo language, called Chidigo by speakers, a Bantu language. Origins The Mijikenda peoples, Mijikenda, whose name means "the nine kaya" or "nine cities," is made up of nine peoples, including the Digo. The Mijikenda share many cultural traits and speak mutually understandable languages. They made the decision to go by the name Mijikenda when they formed the cooperative political organization known as the Mijikenda Union in the late 1940s in coastal Kenya. The Digo have resided in the Kenyan coast's plains and hinterland ridges south of Mombasa and in Tanzania north of Tanga since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segeju People
The Segeju (Swahili language, Swahili: ''Wasegeju''; Mijikenda language, Mijikenda: ''Asagidzu'') are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnolinguistic group mostly based in Tanzania's Tanga Region (particularly Mkinga District) and Kenya's Kwale County. Most Segeju reside in the small coastal strip between the Tanzanian city of Tanga, Tanzania, Tanga and the Kenyan-Tanzanian border. However, some Segeju have migrated to Urban area, urban areas in other parts of Tanzania or Kenya (e.g. Mombasa), in hopes of better employment opportunities and quality of life. Segeju migration to urban areas often results in severance of community ties, leading to a lack of transmission of important Tradition, cultural traditions and Segeju language, language. In 2012, the Segeju population was estimated to number fewer than 25,000, with fewer than 7,000 speaking the Segeju language. The Segeju have Kinship, kinship relations with the Digo people, who are part of the nine tribes of the Mijikenda peoples, Mij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swahili Language
Swahili, also known as as it is referred to endonym and exonym, in the Swahili language, is a Bantu languages, Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely. They generally range from 150 million to 200 million; with most of its native speakers residing in Tanzania and Kenya. Swahili has a significant number of loanwords from other languages, mainly Arabic, as well as from Portuguese language, Portuguese, English language, English and German language, German. Around 40% of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language ( , a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coasts'). The loanwords date from the era of contact between Arab slave trade, Arab traders and the Northeast Bantu languages, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. According to a 2024 estimate, Tanzania has a population of around 67.5 million, making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator. Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania. In the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included South Cushitic languages, Southern Cushitic speakers similar to modern day Iraqw people who moved south from present-day Ethiopia; Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago; and the Southern Nilotic languages, Southern Nilotes, including the Datooga people, Datoog, who originated fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
