#Tanganyika

So i got curious of how badly hit Tanganyika was during the Spanish flu pandemic. Very few records exist obviously. But i found some sources that shed a light on

Adepoju Tobi Samuel

At Lake Kivu, Rwanda in 2016.Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between DR Congo & Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East

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Some history about Tanzania a lotta ppl don’t know, a : Mainland Tanzania, actually formerly went by the name of Tanganyika, a sovereign state that existed up until 1964 It

I'm not big into military history but I have a bizarre fascination with the absolutely ape-shit story of the Battle for Lake Tanganyika in the First World War. The most

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#HistoryKeThread: The Fall Of The EAC In 1977 "The East African Community is as dead as a dodo", Kenya's Minister for Power and Communications, Isaac Omolo Okero, informed Parliament. This

KLEIST SYKES alianzisha TAA mwaka 1930 na baadae ikawa TANU ya kina Mwl. Nyerere. Alizaliwa mwaka 1894 huko Pangani, Tanga. Baba yake Sykes Mbuwane alikua Mzulu wa Afrika Kusini aliyekua

Caesarean Sections Were Performed In Africa Long Before They Were Standardized Across The World. C-sections were invented in Africa long before Europe, and the rest of the world fully mastered

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Est-ce que vous saviez qu'en 1962, une terrible épidémie de fou rire avait touchée le Tanganyika (actuelle Tanzanie) ? Elle a débuté le 30 janvier 1962 et plusieurs écoles ont

Nico Minde 🇹🇿

Simba versus Yanga is a cultural event in Tanzania. The jibes and name calling has a history. Now Simba refer to Yanga as Utopolo. #DarDerby [Small thread] Simba-Yanga rivalry has

THREAD: 1.The @dailynation's RECKLESS headline today is not unexpected. It is part of its historical and sustained attack on the Kenyan people. @MutemiWaKiama @Maskani254 @BettieWaShiro @AshaJaffar @vinnotiskot @mumbir @ndukoomatigere @NyoikeTj

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1/ #HistoryKeThread: The Story Of Mekatilili wa Menza 2/ It is unimaginable to speak of the history of Kenya's armed struggle for freedom without talking about Mekatilili', one of Kenya's

One day someone will write THE book about perhaps the most devastating pandemic to ever hit East Africa. No, not Covid or even the 1918 flu, but the twin rinderpest

Dr. Witchelle’s Flying Monkeys 🧙🏾‍♀️🐒

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Last night, I watched the @NatGeoChannel documentary #Jane—I wanted to see it for a while, but now that I have access to Disney+, it seemed a good time to catch

Today marks 45 years since the passing of Henry Masauko Chipembere in California, USA in 1975. Masauko was perhaps Kanyama Chiume’s closest political ally, a friend and his comrade in

Andreas Greiner

Mount #Kilimanjaro, today, is one of Africa’s leading tourist destinations, attracting 40,000 tourists every year. What most of them don’t know: the origins of the tourism industry date back to

Eric Feigl-Ding

It’s not just death from #COVID19, it’s also the long term suffering of #LongCovid. Don’t let COVID deniers / minimizers try to tell you otherwise. The human suffering toll is