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.
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]