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Dodoma (6°10′23″S 35°44′31″E / 6.17306°S 35.74194°E) is both a city and a region of the United Republic of Tanzania. The region is on the central plateau of the mainland (Tanganyika), 41,310 km² in size and has 1,698,996 inhabitants (2002 Census). The city is the official capital of Tanzania (replacing Dar es Salaam in 1974). It is situated at 1,132 m (3,713 ft) above sea level. The population is growing and is about 350,000 people. Dar es Salaam remains the administrative capital, pending the transfer of government functions to Dodoma, a move intended to be completed by 2005. Dodoma is a centre of communications, linked by rail with Dar es Salaam, and Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, and by road with Kenya to the north and Zambia and Malawi to the south. There is an airport. Dodoma is a marketplace for locally-grown coffee and peanuts, but has a limited industrial base, which includes the manufacture of bricks. |
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 Unless you are sitting in a Developing World or Native American/First Nations Internet cafe and reading this, you probably have to talk to people born before 1930 or on a Native American reservation to begin to appreciate what life is like in Tanzania, especially in Dodoma. Money is very scarce or simply absent. Many girls and women (mostly) spend hours each day walking 100s of meters or kilometers to fill water containers from sometime suspect sources. Old water equipment breaks down and requires heroic efforts to keep in repair.
You typically make a living as a subsistence farmer or herder. If you are a Bantu farmer woman, you likely farm a two to five acre plot by hoe. Your husband may not do much to help you. If herders, you search endlessly for pasture and water. Many women have not learned to read.
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