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Mbulu
Manyara, Tanzania · Africa
About Mbulu
Mbulu sits on the route: 35 minutes from Dongobesh.
Mbulu is in Manyara, Tanzania, with about 45,000 people. The nearest town is Dongobesh, about 29 km away.
Mbulu is a town in Tanzania and the capital of the Mbulu District. The town is inhabited by the Iraqw people. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mbulu is also in Mbulu.
Mbulu is located in the Mbulu Highlands. The town, also known as Imboru among the Iraqw speakers, is the core of the Iraqw people, who speak a CushiticRead more
language.
Mbulu was founded by Germans in 1907 when they colonized former German East Africa (Tanganyika, Burundi and Rwanda).
Mbulu's climate favoured Germans, and the hospitality of the indigenous people favoured them. Germans were less harsh to the Iraqw people than to the rest of the Tanganyikans. Thus Iraqw were used by Germans on white-collar jobs. Today most Afro-German with Tanzanian ancestry are Iraqw from Mbulu. During the British regime, Mbulu peasants were able to form trade unions, particularly the Mbulu Wheat Growers association (1923).
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Mbulu is in Manyara, Tanzania, about 29 km from Dongobesh.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 45,384
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Tanzania
- Region
- Manyara
- Timezone
- Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- Coordinates
- -3.8500, 35.5333
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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