Tanzanian rugby was for a long while subsumed under "East Africa", which tended to be dominated by Kenya.
[2] For many years rugby in East Africa was dominated by whites and expatriates, In Kenya and Uganda the game was readily taken up by the indigenous black community in the early 1970s though in Tanzania black players still make up a minority of the sport's participants[3] there are several initiatives to change this.
[4] Tanzania is a founder member of the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR), which was launched officially in January 1986, in Tunis, Tunisia.
Rugby officials from Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, the Seychelles and Madagascar also attended.
[5] Originally Tanzania, along with Kenya and Uganda was represented by the East Africa rugby union team.