Ujiji

British  

/ uːˈdʒiːdʒɪ /

noun

1. a town in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: a former slave and ivory centre; the place where Stanley found Livingstone in 1871. It merged with the neighbouring town of Kigoma to form Kigoma-Ujiji in the 1960s

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Example Sentences

Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania.

From Time Magazine Archive

After 232 days of trekking, a passing caravan reported the presence of an old white man in the nearby village of Ujiji: it could only be Livingstone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pressing on, Stanley unfurled the Stars & Stripes, fired a volley from his muskets, and swooped down on Ujiji dressed impeccably in a freshly chalked sun helmet, a new flannel suit and waxed Wellington boots.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was told by a man that Livingstone was coming to Nyano Lake toward the Tanganika, on which Ujiji is situated, at the very time it was last reported he was murdered.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

But it had broken out in Ujiji with such fury that a pall was spread over the place, and it so invaded his camp that in a few days eight of his men died.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler