Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Archives

    • Postal Address:

      POB 2006
      Dar es Salaam
      Tanzania

    • Location:

      Vijibweni Street

    • Telephone:

      (051) 151279, 150634

    • Facsimile:

      (051)150634

    • Director:

      Peter Mlyansi

    • Year founded:

      1963

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Government records
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Size:

      Approx. 9720 ft

    • Holdings:

      German Records about 9000 files.<br> Early Secretatiat 1919-1927.<br> British Records Secretariat Records 1919-1960.<br> Post-Independence 1961 to date.<br> Personal papers, newspapers, maps and photographs.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, German, Kiswahili

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      nationals: free; foreigners: contact Dr. Hamisi Nguli, COSTECH, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, e-mail: RC@costech.gn.apc.org

    • Access restrictions:

      30 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

  • References:

    Karugila, J.M. "German Records in Tanzania." <I>African Research and Documentation</I> 50 (1989): 12-18.<p> Karugila, J.M. "A National Archives in a Developing Country." <I>Tanzania Notes and Records</I> 84/85 (1974): 117-121.