Elifuraha Marealle Explained

Office1:Nominated Member of the Legislative Council
Term1:1955–
Death Date:16 October 2015 (aged 86)
Death Place:Moshi, Tanzania

Elifuraha Ndesamburo Urio Marealle (died 16 October 2015) was a Tanganyikan politician. In 1955 she was one of the first three women appointed to the Legislative Council.

Biography

Marealle attended Ashira Girls School in Moshi,[1] and later taught at the school. In September 1948 she married Thomas Marealle, paramount chief of the Chaga people.[2]

In 1955 she was appointed to the Legislative Council as one of the first three female members,[3] the only African amongst the three.[4] In the same year she was a delegate to the Marangu conference of the Lutheran Church as a representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanganyika, where she was a keynote speaker.[5] She became a member of the YWCA in the 1960s and worked at TANESCO.

She died in October 2015 after several years of illness.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Marja-Liisa Swantz (2002) Beyond the Forestline: The Life and Letters of Bengt Sundkler, p140
  2. https://habarileo.co.tz/habari/miaka-100-ya-chifu-marealle.aspx Miaka 100 ya chifu Marealla
  3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/124018735/ Councillors All
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=5LEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18 Tanganyika Gets 1st Negro Woman Legislator
  5. https://www.lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/DMD-Marangu2015_Journeying_Together-web.pdf Journeying Together
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20151020160034/http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/43339-first-tanzanian-woman-legco-member-dies Tanzania: First Tanzanian Woman LEGCO Member Dies