Elifuraha Marealle

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]