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Over about 10,000 years ago the Tanzanian human
history began, with a group of hunters living in the area south of Olduvai George, This
people believed to be Khoisan speaking, related to the mordern Tanzania's sundawe group.
The Cushitic - speaking joined them about 3000/5000 years ago from the present
Ethiopia who moved in larger groups/communities and also as individual clans or familie
bringing with them their basic techiniques ofagrivaulture, food production and later
introduced cattle ending. They gradually absorbed the hunters who had inhabited the
place for quite a long time.
The Bantus speaking from the distant Niger delta in
the west Africa started making their way in Tanzania slowly slowly via the cameroon and
congo (Zaire) way back 1000BC, with a decisive impact to the settlent of the region.
By the 1st century the had settled and possesed much of present tanzania and
introduced advance skills on agriculture, iron/steel workings productions techniques, they
totaly absorbed the former inhabitants.
The Nilots people arrived in Tanania in smaller
groups from the present Southern Sudan, clashing and mixing with the bantus people who had
now absorbed the region. This went on till through to the18th Century. This
people were pastoralists and settled in more or less fertile areas with abundant feed for
their herds.
Coastal: The coastal areas where mainly occupied by
the bantus but they were joined ashore by traders from first mediterranean and later from
Arabia and Persia and started to intermix introducing also the swahili language and
culture from their intermixing, and from the arab traders came the islam which by
the 11th Century was entrenched. Things moved on and the next centuries new trading posts
were established this includes the Islands where trade of Gold, Ivory and others was
exercised.
DAR ES SALAAM
Dar es Salaam has come along way since the late
1930’s when Roald Dahl first glimpsed it. With a population of over 2 million and an
area of more than 1350 sq km, it is Tanzania’s major city.
Until the mid – 19th century what
is now Dar es Salaam was just a humble fishing village. In the 1860’s Sultan Sayyid
Majid of Zanzibar decided to develop the area’s inland harbour into a port and
trading centre, and named the site Dar es Salaam.
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