Exhibit brings Mangi Meli of Old Moshi back to life

Chief Mangi Meli of Old Moshi. PHOTO | COURTESY OF DEUTSCHE FOTOTHEK

As with many African countries, most of the recorded Tanzanian history is Eurocentric, giving an impression that Tanzanians did not exist or even if they did, accomplished nothing, before the coming of the Europeans in the case of Tanzania, the Germans.

As much as the country’s history is taught in school, there is little information on Tanzanian communities before colonisation.