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Among the Meru are members of Tanzania's modern middle class: doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, and military professionals. [1] Modern Meru's tight settlement zones are also distinguished by high levels of education: practically all children attend school nowadays, and 90% of the adult population has completed at least 7 years of basic school.
The Meru people share the same name and identity with the Meru people of Kenya. The Meru people are said to have arrived to the slopes of the great mountain around 800 years ago coming from the mount Kenya . According to the inhabitants, migration occurred back and forth throughout the region, and the Meru people should be viewed as a part of ...
The name "Meru" refers to both the people and the region, which for many years was the only administrative unit. In 1992, "Greater" Meru District was divided into three administrative units: Meru Central, Meru North, and Tharaka-Nithi (Tharaka and Meru South).
The Meru and Arusha's Chagga wives were repatriated back to Kilimanjaro. The British started growing coffee in 1920. The British started growing coffee in 1920. The administrative region of Arusha existed in 1922 [ 12 ] while mainland Tanzania was a British mandate under the League of Nations and known as Tanganyika .
Meru District, officially the Meru District Council (Wilaya ya Meru, in Swahili) is one of seven districts of the Arusha Region of Tanzania.The District is bordered to the north by Longido District, to the east by Siha and Hai Districts of Kilimanjaro Region, to the south by Simanjiro District of Manyara Region, and to the west by Arusha Rural District and Arusha Urban District.
Meru is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people (Ameru) who live on the Eastern and Northern slopes of Mount Kenya and on the Nyambene ranges. They settled in this area after centuries of migration from the north. The Meru people are a fairly homogeneous community and all share a common ancestry.
Meru people, also known as Amîîrú, are a people of Kenya Meru, another name for the Aboriginal Australian Erawirung people of South Australia Wameru , Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania
The Arusha (Waarusha, in Swahili) people are a Bantu ethnic and indigenous group based in the western slopes of mount Meru in Arusha District of Arusha Region in Tanzania.The Maasai regard the Arusha people as related as they were once a part of the immigrant Maasai whom arrived in Arusha in the late 18th century from Kenya. [1]