Gidabuday Sports Tourism Foundation (GSTF)

Runners take of the good start to mark the first annual Bagamoyo Historical Marathon held in the ancient town of Bagamoyo on Sunday June 22 nd 2014. The winner of men’s Half Marathon race Ismail Juma is congratulated by the deputy Director of Sports Juliana Yassoda while surrounded by other officials. Ladies First: RT-Colonel Iddi Kipingu is awarding and congratulating ladies winners as part of promoting tourism and sports all together.  

I visited the town that dates about 200 yrs ago, I wached a Marathon older than the great Boston Marathon; I mean older than Boston because the town was the final destination for arriving slaves from the west angle of Tanzania in the  peripheries of Congo and Lake Tanganyika. The Marathon has more meaning than the Kilimanjaro Marathon which has become a source of income rather than promotion of spirit of sportsmanship. The town of Bagamoyo , Tanzania, was founded at the end of the 18th century. It was also spelled ( Bwaga moyo ) the original capital of German East Africa and was one of the most important trading ports along the East African coast. Today the town has about 30,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the District of Bagamoyo, recently being considered as a world heritage site. Bagamoyo was the first capital of Tanzania while serving as the German headquarters of German East Africa (first under the auspices of the German East African Company and t