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Amos Makalla

Tanzanian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16213631 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amos Gabriel Makalla (born 16 September 1971) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and has been a Member of Parliament for Mvomero constituency from 2010 to 2015. As of 2013, he was the Deputy Minister of Information, Youth, Culture, and Sports.

Makalla received his Masters of Business Administration degree from Mzumbe University.

As of 2018, Makalla was Regional Commissioner for Mbeya.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Amos Makalla” is tanzanian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Amos, Makalla and Tanzanian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2010, 2015, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-09-16. For this dossier, Amos, Makalla and Tanzanian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “tanzanian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16213631. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2010, 2015 and 2013.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Amos Makalla” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.