Kilwa Kivinje Culture

Kilwa Kivinje It was the German administrative capital of the Kilwa region.

They built a boma to house offices – you can still see it today the locals have long forgotten its original use.

Kivinje also bears witness to a grimmer aspect of German colonisation. The town’s inhabitants built the Mwembe Kinyonga memorial on the site where Tanzanian participants in the Maji-Maji rebellion were hanged. This uprising took place at the turn of the twentieth- century and sowed the seeds of Independence, a total of 300,000 people killed during the uprising against colonial powers.