Elifuraha Marealle | |
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| Nominated Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1955– | |
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| Died | 16 October 2015 (aged 86) Moshi, Tanzania |
Elifuraha Ndesamburo Urio Marealle (died 16 October 2015) was a Tanganyikan politician. In 1955 she was one of the first three women appointed to the Legislative Council.
Marealle attended Ashira Girls School in Moshi, [1] and later taught at the school. [2] In September 1948 she married Thomas Marealle, paramount chief of the Chaga people. [3]
In 1955 she was appointed to the Legislative Council as one of the first three female members, [4] the only African amongst the three. [5] In the same year she was a delegate to the Marangu conference of the Lutheran Church as a representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanganyika, where she was a keynote speaker. [6] She became a member of the YWCA in the 1960s and worked at TANESCO. [2]
She died in October 2015 after several years of illness. [2]
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