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42 <h1>Why is it called the Arusha Project?</h1>
43
44 Arusha is a town in northern Tanzania. Its airport code is
45 ARK. I, Will Partain (project founder), grew up there. I
46 like it; it's a cool name. Had I ever had reason
47 (e.g. talent) to start a band, I would have called it
48 "Arusha".
49 <p>
50 Some facts about Arusha:
51 <ul>
52 <li> Arusha is the nearest town to all of the northern Tanzanian
53 game parks (Manyara, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Tarangire,
54 etc.). Arusha is bulging at the seams with "tour
55 operators".
56 <p>
57 <li> Arusha is at the foot of <a
58 href="http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/peaks/meru.htm">Mount Meru</a> [14,979ft/4,566m],
59 the fifth highest mountain in Africa. Regrettably, it is less
60 than 50 miles/80 km. from the first highest (Kilimanjaro), so
61 it tends to be overlooked.
62 <p>
63 Meru is <a
64 href="http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/meru.html">allegedly an active volcano</a> and last erupted in
65 1910. I wish somebody had bothered to tell me this when I
66 was a kid (and/or the two times I climbed it :-).
67 <p>
68 Arusha National Park is a small-but-perfectly-formed game
69 park that takes in the east side of Mt Meru, from up in
70 its crater, down to the Momela lakes and Ngurdoto crater
71 below.
72 <p>
73 <li> Arusha town itself is 5,053ft/1,540m above sea level,
74 and is ever-so-approximately half way on the Cape-to-Cairo
75 route through Africa.
76 Weather: <a href="http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Arusha_TN_c.html">fantastic</a>!
77 <p>
78 <li><a name="arusa">The Arusa people</a> (also: Arusha) are among those who live
79 in the Arusha area (surprise). The Arusa are <a
80 href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MET">
81 an-offshoot/cousins-of the Maasai</a>, with their language being
82 a dialect of <a
83 href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~dlpayne/maasai/maling.htm">the
84 Maa language</a>. (More hard data about the Arusa most welcome!)
85 <p>
86 <li> In the late '60s, Arusha was due to become the
87 headquarters of the East African Community (EAC), a
88 European-Community-like grouping of Kenya, Tanzania, and
89 Uganda. It never quite happened, though, because Idi Amin
90 came to power in Uganda, and Tanzania's president,
91 the late Julius Nyerere, just couldn't do business with him.
92 (In fact, Nyerere sent in the Tanzanian troops that overthrew
93 Amin in 1979.)
94 <p>
95 Arusha got a set of buildings that were to be the EAC
96 headquarters, which turned into an "international
97 conference centre".
98 <p>
99 <li> Those same facilities are part of the reason Arusha was
100 chosen as the place for the United Nations International
101 Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [<a
102 href="http://www.ictr.org/">UN-ICTR</a>], following the
103 genocide there in 1994.
104 <p>
105 The first ever international court verdict on genocide was
106 given in Arusha on 4th September, 1998.
107 <p>
108 <li> The "<a
109 href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1967-arusha.html">Arusha
110 Declaration</a>", by President Nyerere in 1967, was a
111 milestone in the development of "African socialism", which
112 has had a central place in recent Tanzanian history (for
113 better or worse).
114 <p>
115 The Declaration has had a wide influence beyond Tanzania.
116 For example, there is an "<a href="http://www.arusha.org/">Arusha Centre</a>" in Calgary,
117 Alberta, Canada, dedicated to its principles.
118 <p>
119 <li> The cheesy 1962 movie "Hatari!" (comedy, starring John
120 Wayne) was filmed in Arusha and environs (including the
121 Momela lodge).
122 <p>
123 <li> Arusha hasn't been at the forefront of computerisation. I
124 believe that the Tanganyika Farmers Association had an ICL
125 ME29 in the mid-1980s, which suggests that they had had
126 other ICL 1900 series computers for a while before that.
127 <p>
128 Pre-PCs, I reckon you could count Arusha's computers on the
129 fingers of one hand. Send in corrections/details, please!
130 </ul>
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