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.

Previously an academic on the teaching and research staff of the University of Dar es Salaam, and currently a senior executive official within the Tanzanian Government, Dr. Natu Mwamba (neé El-Maamry) is an alumna of the University of Dar es Salaam - of the graduating class of 1984. Born in October 1961, of a parent who was himself a graduate lawyer and senior official in government and in civic organisations (the late Alhaji Said Hamad El-Maamry), Natu was taken by parents early to school in the mid-1960s