Songea

Songea is the capital of Ruvuma Region in southwestern Tanzania. It is placed alongside the A19 avenue the city has a populace of about 203,309, and it's miles the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea. Between 1905 and 1907, the town became a centre of African resistance all through the Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa. The town is poised to experience considerable economic growth within the near destiny because the Mtwara Corridor opens up in some years. Songea became a top notch Ngoni warrior, hanged in 1906 at some stage in the time of German repression of the Maji Maji revolt. Songea had been spared the demise sentence due to the fact he had surrendered. However he demanded to be hanged along side the other Ngoni leaders.

The Germans complied. After the Second World War, the place turned into marked for speedy agricultural improvement linked to the in the long run disastrous groundnut scheme. A railway have been planned from the coast to Songea and in fact appeared in Fifties excessive faculty geography textual content books.