Tengeru Explained

Official Name:Tengeru
Settlement Type:town
Pushpin Map:Tanzania
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Arusha Region
Unit Pref:metric
Timezone:EAT
Utc Offset:+3
Timezone Dst:not observed
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Coordinates:-3.3742°N 36.7853°W
Elevation M:1387
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Cwb

Tengeru is a market-town[1] in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania. Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, surrounding Lake Duluti, Tengeru has a temperate climate. The town is thirteen kilometres east of the city of Arusha.[2]

History

In 1934, Kenyon Painter, an American investor, established a coffee research station at Tengeru,[3] which today is operated by the Lyamungu Research Institute of the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture and known as the National Centre for Coffee Research.[4]

Beginning in 1942 and continuing after World War II, a camp for displaced persons from central and eastern Europe, just south of Lake Duluti. It primarily housed Poles, who were then resettled mainly to Britain, but partly also to the United States, Australia, and other countries.[5] At its height it housed over 4,000 people, but now all that remains of the camp is its large cemetery.[6] [7] [8] The dairy and beef cattle farm that was run by the internees was taken over in 1952 by the Ministry of Agriculture and became the Tengeru Horticultural Research and Training Institute (HORTI).[9]

Today, Tengeru has become a suburb of Arusha.[10]

Twin Towns

The town is twinned with the town of Leominster in the UK

Notes and references

Notes and References

  1. News: Mayallah, Elisha . 14 March 2009 . Journey to the Polish Refugees Cemetery in Tengeru . Arusha Times . 558 . Arusha, Tanzania. https://web.archive.org/web/20131217081349/http://www.arushatimes.co.tz/2009/10/society_5.htm . 17 December 2013 . live.
  2. Web site: Tengeru Cultural . Tanzania Cultural Tourism Programme . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407060631/http://tanzaniaculturaltourism.go.tz/index.php/tengeru-cultural . 7 April 2016 . live.
  3. Book: Herne, Brian . 1999 . White Hunters: The golden age of African Safaris . New York . Henry Holt (Macmillan) . 202 . 978-0-8050-5919-9 .
  4. Web site: Northern Zone: Research Institutes/Centres . Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives . Tanzania .
  5. Book: Lingelbach, Jochen . On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War . Berghahn . 2020 . 978-1-78920-444-5 . New York, Oxford.
  6. News: Abraham, Curtis. How East Africa became home for Polish exiles . 16 October 2016 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20161018001541/https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/How-East-Africa-became-home-for-Polish-exiles/434746-3417142-j1carr/index.html . 18 October 2016 . live.
  7. Book: Taylor, Lynne . 2009 . Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada, 1941-49 . Toronto . Dundurn . 978-1-55488-004-1.
  8. Book: Szostak, Henryk . 2013 . Tengeru East Africa . American by Choice . 89–145. Xlibris . 978-1-4836-6589-4.
  9. Web site: Northern Zone: Research Institutes/Centres . 2001. Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture & Food Security . https://web.archive.org/web/20060816033050/http://www.drd.mafs.go.tz/northern.htm . 16 August 2006 . dead.
  10. Web site: Arusha-Tengeru highway construction begins . 22 June 2015 . Wanted in Africa . https://web.archive.org/web/20160429184602/http://www.wantedinafrica.com/news/arusha-tengeru-highway-construction-begins/ . 29 April 2016 . live.

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