Songea

Songea is the capital of Ruvuma Region in southwestern Tanzania. It is placed alongside the A19 avenue. The metropolis 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 metropolis was a centre of African resistance during the Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa.

The town is poised to experience considerable financial increase inside the close to future because the Mtwara Corridor opens up in some years. Songea turned into a wonderful Ngoni warrior, hanged in 1906 at some point of the time of German repression of the Maji Maji rebellion. Songea had been spared the loss of life sentence because he had surrendered. However he demanded to be hanged along with the other Ngoni leaders. The Germans complied. After the Second World War, the place become marked for rapid agricultural development related to the ultimately disastrous groundnut scheme. A railway had been planned from the coast to Songea and actually appeared in Fifties excessive faculty geography textual content books.