Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere

male, deceased (1999)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was the first President of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from the country's...
Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Kikwete

male, 59 years old
President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born October 7 1950) is a Tanzanian politician and current President of the United Republic of Tanzania. Kikwete...
Abeid Karume

Abeid Karume

male, deceased (1972)
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume (1905-1972) was the first President of Zanzibar. He obtained this title as a result of a popular revolution which lead to...
Karl Peters

Karl Peters

male, deceased (1918)
Karl Peters, German traveller in Africa, one of the founders of German East Africa (East Africa, today's Tanzania), was born at Neuhaus on the...

Hans Meyer

male, deceased (1929)
Hans Meyer (March 22, 1858 -- July 5, 1929) was an Austrian geology professor from Leipzig, who is credited with being the first European to reach...
Verney Lovett Cameron

Verney Lovett Cameron

male, deceased (1894)
Verney Lovett Cameron (July 1, 1844 - March 24, 1894), English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from...
Christopher Mtikila

Christopher Mtikila

male, 59 years old
Rev. Christopher Mtikila was born in southern Tanzania in 1950. He studied abroad and became active in the human rights organization of the Full...
Hukwe Zawose

Hukwe Zawose

male, deceased (2003)
Hukwe Ubi Zawose (b. Dodoma, Tanganyika, 1938 or 1940; d. Bagamoyo, Tanzania, December 30, 2003) was a prominent Tanzanian musician. He was a...
Gertrude Mongella

Gertrude Mongella

female, 64 years old
Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella is the president of the Pan-African Parliament. She was born in 1945 in Ukerewe, Lake Victoria, Tanganyika, Tanzania.

Moussa Traoré

male, 73 years old
General Moussa Traoré is a Malian soldier and politician. He served as President of Mali from 1968 to 1991. Born in Kayes, he studied at Kita and a...