Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Shambaa
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Shambaa, a Bantu people of Tanzania. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Swahili
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Swahili people of Eastern Africa. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal...
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Tanzania
This resource from the CIA World Factbook provides a detailed fact sheet of Tanzania. The content covers the country's geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. It...
BBC
Bbc: News: Country Profile: Tanzania
BBC News explores the East African country of Tanzania. Includes a general overview, country facts, information on leaders and media, and links to a timeline of key events and recent news.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Decision Is Made
In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Zaramo
"Wazaramo" is the preferred name for the people who live in the coastal area of Tanzania, in the vicinity of the capital city, Dar es Salaam. "Wazaramo" refers to the ethnic group, "Mzaramo" to an individual, and "Kizaramo" to the...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Luo
The Luo live primarily within the Kenyan province of Nyanza, but several live in Tanzania and other countries. They farm the land in order for adequate food supply, they are first and foremost cattle herders. Wives keep separate houses...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Iraqw
The Iraqw are an agrico-pastoral people who live in north-central Tanzania. With the expansion of their territory, the Iraqw have come to interact and coexist with other ethnic groups. Maize is the staple crop of the Iraqw; it is...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Fipa
The Fipa are a Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Tanzania in East-Central Africa. The name "Fipa" appears to have been bestowed on them by nineteenth-century traders and means "people of the escarpment." It was later adopted by...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Chagga Kinship
In the nineteenth century the Kichagga-speaking people on Mount Kilimanjaro were divided into many small, autonomous chiefdoms. Early accounts frequently identify the inhabitants of each chiefdom as a separate "tribe." Although the...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Global Edge: Tanzania: Introduction
Discover statistics, history, economy, culture, politics, and demographics for the country of Tanzania in East Africa.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Maasai
The Maasai comprise a federation of tribal sections whose economy is based on nomadic pastoralism. Because each tribal section is effectively autonomous, both economically and socially, there is a considerable diversity in custom between...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nyakyusa and Ngonde
The Nyakyusa of southwestern Tanzania are known from missionary and traveler's records since the beginning of European contact with the East African interior in the 1870s. The Nyakyusa are especially noted for their system of "age...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nyamwezi and Sukuma
The Nyamwezi and Sukuma are two closely related ethnic groups that live mostly in the region to the south of Lake Victoria in west-central Tanzania. Beliefs in a High God are widely held but involve no special cult. Belief in witchcraft...
Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery: Bombings of Us Embassies
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery provides several photographs of the terrorist bombings on U.S. embassies in Africa in August of 1998. The text is very brief, but the pictures tell a lot.
InterKnowledge Corp.
Geographia: Tanzania
InterKnowledge Corp provides basic facts about the location, geography, climate, history and culture of the country Tanzania.
BBC
Bbc News: Julius Nyerere the Conscience of Africa
This BBC obituary of Julius Nyerere takes a look at his life and his political accomplishments.
PBS
Pbs Online: Socialism to Privatization in Tanzania
This PBS site has a detailed timeline of Tanzania, covering the entire 20th century.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Museum: Africa: Eastern Africa
A simple explanation of the Eastern Africa region of Africa, with information on the cultural history and examples of artwork.
CRW Flags
Flags of the World: Tanzania
This Flags of the World site offers a large flag of Tanzania with a description of the flag and the country coat of arms.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: Tanzania
On this site, kids learn about the geography and history of Tanzania.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Julius Nyerere
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Julius Nyerere, the first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of Tanzania (1964). Nyerere was also the...
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Tanzania: Geography
A very brief look at the physical environment of Tanzania. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
Curated OER
Kilwa Kisiwani Ruins in Tanzania
Kilwa Kisiwani Ruins in Tanzania, the oldest city in Eastern Africa.