Tabora Boys School
The school that educated Julius Nyerere and most of Tanzania's first cabinet.
The British opened Tabora Boys in 1922 as the government secondary school for the sons of chiefs and, soon, for the ablest boys of the whole territory. Its alumni include Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s first president, and Rashidi Kawawa, its first prime minister; five of the eight ministers in the independence cabinet of 1961 had studied here. Tabora Girls followed in 1928.
Both are still working government schools, set in large tree-shaded grounds in Kitete. They are not museums, so visit with respect, but the main buildings can be seen from the road, and the school’s place in the country’s story makes it a stop on any history walk.
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Livingstone's Tembe
The flat-roofed Arab trader's house at Kwihara where David Livingstone lived in 1871 and Henry Morton Stanley waited out a war.
The German Boma
The fort from which Germany ran central German East Africa, and the prize the Belgians took in 1916.
Tabora Hotel (the Kaiserhof)
Built in German times as a guesthouse fit for the Kaiser, and still a hotel today.
Tabora Railway Station
The 1912 station at the junction of the Central Line, where trains divide for Kigoma, Mwanza and Mpanda.