university of dar es salaam
One of Tanzania’s well-known female scholars and a dedicated female activist of
all time from as early as the 1970/80s, retired Professor Ruth Meena is an
alumna of the University of Dar es Salaam of the graduating class of 1971. She
was born on 23 April 1946 in the village of Mbokomu in Moshi district,
Kilimanjaro region. She had her basic primary education at Natiro and Kilawalaa
Primary schools from 1955 to 1957, after which she proceeded with four years of
upper primary [known then as ‘middle’ school] education at Ashira Middle School
from 1958 to 1961. She entered secondary school at Ashira Girls School in 1962,
