Kongwa District Council is one of the seven (7) districts of the Dodoma region, established in 1996 under the Local Government Act of 1982 Section No. 8 and No. 9. The district has an area of 4,041 square kilometers and the area suitable for agriculture and pastoral land is 363,690 hectares. . The district is bordered by Chamwino District on the West Side; Gairo District (Morogoro Region), East; Mpwapwa District to the south and north to Kiteto District (Manyara Region).
According to the 2012 Population and Housing Census, the district has a 2.4 percent increase in population; According to 2015, Kongwa district is estimated to have a population of 332,831 of whom 160,225 are males and 172,606 females. In addition, the number of households currently is 61,994. Households engaged in agricultural and pastoral activities are 55,573 equal to 90%.
The inhabitants of this District are the Elder, the Elder, and the Colored. There are also other ethnic groups that migrated from different parts of Tanzania such as the Bena, the Ngangu, the Kamba and the Maasai who came for agricultural and livestock activities.
The main agricultural activities carried out by Kongwa District residents are livestock (cattle, goats, sheep, and donkeys). Donkeys are used extensively for export. Also commercial food and commerce activities such as maize, sorghum, millet, nuts and sunflowers.
Kongwa Known:
The Kongwa District first became known on the World Map in 1913 when the Canadian Missionary Society, known as the Church Missionary Society, began the construction of the College of Teachers and Theology in 1909 in the village of Mlanga. But thanks to World War I, the construction took so long to complete in 1927. The materials used to build the Academy are stone and limestone.
The College taught the profession of Pastoral (Theology), Teachers and Nursing. Students studying at the College came from different parts of Tanganyika and Kenya. Among the first students studying at the College were Elder Moses Fungo and John Malecela.
The building of St. Philip’s Theological College built in 1927 – Mlanga Kongwa
During the Colonial War between the British and the Germans in 1914 – 1918, 12 students who studied at the College were captured by the Germans and taken to Zanzibar for storage and after the war was returned. Most of the residents living in Mlanga, mostly immigrants from parts of Berege (Morogoro), Tanga and Iringa and their leader at the time was called Chief Mahinyila. In the area of Mlanga near the mountain there are footsteps of Horses that were adopted in the same way by the Colonies during the war.
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