Presently the Executive Secretary of the Teachers Service Commission in Tanzania since 29 March 2021, Ms. Paulina Mbena Nkwama is an alumna of the University of Dar es Salaam of the graduating class of 1997.

A Mluguru of Morogoro by ethnic identity, she was born on 31 July, 1969 in Nzega district, Tabora region, where her parents were working and residing then. At the age of nine, in 1978, she was enrolled for primary education at Visiga in Coast Region, where her father was at that time serving as a teacher.

Presently an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rwanda in Rwanda and an Honorary Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, Nelson Mutatina Ijumba is an alumnus—a past graduate—of the University of Dar es Salaam of the graduating class of 1977. Within the University of Rwanda, he is based in the African Centre of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development (ACEESD), where he is an appointed International Research and Innovation Programme Manager of the ‘Africa Hub’ jointly owned by the University of Rwanda and Coventry University in the United Kingdom.