- Pole to Pole
of Kigoma . In the nearby town of Ujiji he visits the site where David Livingstone and Henry ... more details
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- Gieves & Hawkes
, finds David Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 27 October 1871 ... more details
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- Watling Street (horse)
from Hyperides, with Ujiji two lengths back in third.and Big Game sixth. ref cite news author Special ... more details
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- History of rail transport in Tanzania
the Usambara Railway and the Central Line from the coast at Dar es Salaam to Ujiji were fully under ... more details
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- East African Campaign (World War I)
from the coast at Dar es Salaam to Ujiji was fully under British control. With Lettow Vorbeck ... and took Biharamuro, Mwanza, Karema, Kigoma and Ujiji. After several days of heavy fighting, they secured ... more details
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- 1871
and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika , and greets him by saying ... more details
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- Nyamwezi people
followed this up by finally entering Unyamwezi and reaching Ujiji by 1831. A kind of California Gold ... more details
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- Lake Mweru
to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika to Mweru and then to the Lunda Kingdom Lunda , Luba Empire Luba , Msiri ... more details
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- Ascot Gold Cup
Flyon 1940 no race 1941 Finis 1942 Owen Tudor horse Owen Tudor 1943 Ujiji 1944 Umiddad 1945 Ocean Swell ... more details
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- Msiri
Msiri c. 1830 December 20, 1891 founded and ruled the Yeke Kingdom also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom in south east Katanga Province Katanga , DR Congo from about 1856 to 1891. His name is sometimes spelled M Siri in articles in French. Other variants are Mziri , Msidi , and Mushidi and his full name was Mwenda Msiri Ngelengwa Shitambi . ref name Kingmsiri http www.kingmsiri.com index2.htm Mwami Msiri, King of Garanganze . Retrieved 8 February 2007. ref Image Msiri s kingdom in 1880 760x460 lo res.jpg thumb right 300px Southern Central Africa in 1890 showing the central position of Msiri s Yeke Kingdom and the principal trade routes, with the approximate territories of Msiri s main allies names in yellow and the approximate areas occupied by European powers names in orange does not spheres of influence or borders . The east coast trade was controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar . Areas of influence of other tribes and of France and Germany are not shown. Msiri s origins and rise to power From Tabora to Katanga Msiri was a Nyamwezi also known as Yeke or Bayeke from Tabora in Tanzania and a trader, like his father Kalasa, involved in the copper , ivory trade ivory and slave trade controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar and his Arab and Swahili people Swahili agents. The main trade route went to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika and then to Lake Mweru and Katanga. ref Moloney, Joseph Augustus 1893 . With Captain Stairs to Katanga , pp. 172 3, London Sampson Low, Marston & Company ISBN 0 9553936 5 5 . ref Around 1850 Msiri was sent by his father to Katanga to barter for ivory and copper with a certain Wasanga chief, who was frequently under attack by a Lunda people Lunda chief. Msiri had guns, the Lunda chief didn t and Msiri easily beat him, earning the Wasanga chief s gratitude. The next year Msiri returned to Katanga with a large entourage and effectively took over the chieftainship, getting himself named as successor. ref Moloney 1893, pp. 173 4 ref There is also a ... more details
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- Edgar Albert Smith
Tanganyika and of the neighbourhood of Ujiji, central Africa . Proceedings of the Zoological Society ... more details
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- November 10
&ndash Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji ... more details
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- Henry Morton Stanley
1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present day Tanzania , and may have greeted him with the now ... more details
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- Resident (title)
the other district being Ujiji Resident of Urundi present Burundi 15 November 1907 June 1916 ... more details
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- Kazembe
Kazembe to trade in copper, ivory and slaves. Trade routes such as that from Zanzibar via Ujiji on Lake ... more details
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- History of Tanzania
to seek the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika ... more details
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- Political history of Eastern Africa
Rwanda and Ujiji comprising Burundi inside the German East Africa. The next year the station is relocated ... more details
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- Godfrey Mwakikagile
Infobox writer name Godfrey Mwakikagile image imagesize alt caption pseudonym birth name birth date 1949 birth place Kigoma , Tanganyika death date death place occupation scholar , writer nationality Tanzania n ethnicity citizenship religion Christianity education alma mater Wayne State University 1975 period genre subject movement notableworks Africans and African Americans Complex Relations Prospects and Challenges 2009 br Africa 1960 1970 Chronicle and Analysis 2009 spouse partner children relatives influences influenced awards signature website portaldisp Godfrey Mwakikagile is a prominent Tanzania n scholar, writer and specialist in African studies . Childhood He was born in the town of Kigoma in western Tanzania what was then Tanganyika on 4 October 1949 and was baptised Godfrey about two months later on Christmas day, 25 December 1949, as a member of the Church Missionary Society CMS among whose supporters was Scottish people Scottish explorer and missionary doctor, Dr. David Livingstone of the London Missionary Society . Dr. Livingstone campaigned against slavery and the slave trade but also helped pave the way for the colonisation of Africa. As Godfrey Mwakikagile states in one of his books Africa and America in The Sixties which is partly autobiographical and among other subjects also covers members of the baby boomer generation including himself born after the end of World War II , he was, according to his birth certificate, baptised by Reverend Frank McGorlick from Victoria, Australia , a Scottish minister of the CMS Church in Kigoma his parents belonged to. But he was brought up as a member of the Moravian Church in Rungwe District in what was then the Southern Highlands Province in colonial Tanganyika. He moved to Rungwe District with his parents when he was 5 years old after living in different parts of Tanganyika Kigoma, Ujiji , Kilosa , Morogoro , and Mbeya where his father worked as a medical assistant for the United Kingdom British colonial govern ... more details
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