Tabora
Tabora was founded in the 1820s as a trading company of two Indian (Khoja ed.) merchants, Musa Mzuri and his older brother". [1]
Musa Mzuri is also mentioned by Capt. James Grant in 1864 of having “an establishment of 300 native men and women round him. His abode had, three years ago, taken two months to build and it was surrounded by a circular wall which enclosed his houses, fruit and vegetable trees and a stock of cattle”.[2]
It was also Musa, who told the explorer Jack Speke about the great river flowing north out of Lake Nyanza.[3]
The Central Line starts at the Tanzanian metropolis of Dar es Salaam at the Indian Ocean with today's capital of Tanzania, Dodoma, in the center of the country and proceeds further to Tanzania’s most important port at the shore of Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma. It crosses central Tanzania completely with a length of 1,254 kilometers (779 mi) and overcomes the height of the east edge East African rift valley. The main stations on this line are: Dar es Salaam, Ruvu, Morogoro, Kilosa, Dodoma, Manyoni, Tabora and Kaliua.
References & Notes
- ↑ Wikipedia citing Richard F. Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 2nd vol., Vol. I, p. 326, Vol. II; Pp. 223-226
- ↑ Grant, James Augustus. A walk across Africa: or, domestic scenes from my Nile journal. Whitefish, MT.: Kessinger, 2007.
- ↑ Jeal, Tim. Explorers of the Nile: the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure. London: Faber, 2012. 102-103.
- Picture Gallery of Colonial Tabora
List of Indian Traders recorded as living in Tabora in the German Colonial Handbook, 1903.
Circa 1910
Circa 1910
Circa 1910
German Administrative Offices "Boma" Circa 1910
Belgian Occupation Forces, Tabora Fort 1917
