Mwanza
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- proper noun
- The principal sources are oral histories of sixty-six Sukuma elders that I recorded in the Mwanza region of Tanzania between May and October 1985.
- Mwanza district
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A beat-up old landing strip, Mwanza is lumpy, and even driving over the runway would put a good dent in your hubcap.
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The bustling markets in Mwanza attract tourists looking for local crafts and traditional foods.
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The programs were successful in the chiefdom of Bukumbi in Mwanza District.
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Estimates of the labor time required in African farming were made at the Ukiriguru Agricultural Research Station, Mwanza District, in 1933.
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"It makes starving people run from one place to another, always looking over their shoulders," according to Mario Phillip, the leader of one refugee community in Mwanza district.
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One colonial report claims the bowl figures were made under missionary guidance at the Protestant mission at Mwanza, although Joseph Maes stated that the corpus made for export was nevertheless based on earlier prototypes made for local consumption (1939:85), such as the bowl figure in Figure 6.
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More recently, Karen Coen Flynn in her monograph on food security in Tanzania's city of Mwanza carefully documents the daily food vulnerabilities in Africa where the long-held dichotomy between rural and urban survival is being challenged.
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Mwanza is located on the southern shore of Mwanza and is known for its vibrant culture.
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Many fishermen in Mwanza rely on Lake Victoria for their livelihood, catching various types of fish.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mwanza comes from the local Bantu languages and was the name used by the people living by Lake Victoria, so it began as the place name for that lakeside town. A helpful way to remember Mwanza is to think of it as the 'lakeside' city on the southern shore of Lake Victoria.