The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of East Africa. They are the second-largest ethnic group in Tanzania.[citation needed] The Nyamwezi...
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Look up Nyamwezi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nyamwezi may refer to: Nyamwezi people, of Tanzania Nyamwezi language, their Bantu language This...
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Nyamwezi is a major Bantu language of central Tanzania. It forms a dialect continuum with Sukuma, but is more distinct from it. Konongo and Ruwila are...
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Sukuma people (section Sukuma and Nyamwezi)
(Northerners) when speaking to Nyamwezi, but use Nyamwezi when speaking to anyone else. The groups can be called the Nyamwezi–Sukuma complex, for, while never...
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coast was Tippu Tip, who was the grandson of an enslaved African. The Nyamwezi slave traders operated under the leadership of Msiri and Mirambo. According...
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headman or leader of the recently established Nyamwezi colony. The Sandawe so hated Mtoro and the Nyamwezi settlers that they threw them out in 1902, seizing...
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300,000.[1]. Their name was invented sometime in the 19th century by the Nyamwezi caravans passing through the area while it was still frontier territory...
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Mirambo (category Nyamwezi)
Mtyela Kasanda (c. 1840–1884), better known as King Mirambo, was a Nyamwezi king, from 1860 to 1884. He created the largest state by area in 19th-century...
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(E60) Northeast Coast Bantu (G10-G40): Swahili (E70), etc. Takama: Sukuma–Nyamwezi (+ Konongo–Ruwila), Kimbu (F20), Iramba–Isanzu, Nyaturu (Rimi) (F30), ...
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on the trade. African peoples such as the Imbangala of Angola and the Nyamwezi of Tanzania would serve as middlemen or roving bands warring with other...
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Portuguese–Angolans in the Benguela area, with Tippu Tip in the north and with Nyamwezi and Swahili traders in the east, and indirectly with the Sultan of Zanzibar...
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(Kichaga) (1.2+ million : 600,000 Mochi, 300,000+ Machame, 300,000+ Vunjo) Nyamwezi (1.0 million) Makonde (1.0 million) Ha (1.0 million) Nyakyusa (800,000)...
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391,679. The name "Tabora" (Nyamwezi language: Matoborwa) meaning sweet potatoes, a common food ingredient among the Nyamwezi people. Foreigners corrupted...
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immediately followed by a syllable with another voiceless stop. For example, Nyamwezi has -datu "three" where Swahili, a Bantu language that did not undergo...
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stalled. The population consists of about 125 ethnic groups. The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples have more than 1 million members each.: 4 Over...
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Luguru (404 thousand, 2009) Makonde (1.47 million, 2016) Ngoni Nyakyusa Nyamwezi (1.47 million, 2016) Nyika Pare Rangi (410 thousand, 2007) Safwa (322 thousand...
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80% Bantu) Tanzania 51 95% c. 45 E, F, G, J, M, N, P Abakuria, Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Haya, Chaga, Gogo, Makonde, Ngoni, Matumbi, numerous others (majority...
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troops of Nyamwezi-chieftains dates back to at least 1820, according to Pesek. Ruga-Ruga came into knowledge first as an auxiliary force of Nyamwezi-chieftain...
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central Tanzania that is closely related to Nyamwezi – close enough to sometimes be counted as a dialect of Nyamwezi. Ruwila was until recently quite poorly...
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involved in slave-trading. Groups such as the Imbangala of Angola and the Nyamwezi of Tanzania would serve as intermediaries or roving bands, waging war on...
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wearing black turbans dates back to the late 18th century when a Swahili/Nyamwezi trades man gifted all chiefs he encouraged in the tumbuka territories black...
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their own caravans. The Nyamwezi were long-distance traders throughout East Africa. Ivory was not widely used by the Nyamwezi, but at some point they...
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Kilimanjaro on their way to conduct business in Pangani, the Kamba, Galla, and Nyamwezi are also familiar with the area. Chief Kivoi, a well-known Kamba trader...
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sorghum, millet, and rice. The Nyamwezi have matrilineal descent groups. Ancestral worship is also integral to the Nyamwezi and they also look to high gods...
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sky and sun god Nzambici, Bakongo sky, moon and earth goddess Mulungu, Nyamwezi creator and sky god Waaq creator and sky god. Achamán, Guanche creator...
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tribes commonly found in Mwanza, mostly in ports and cities, are the Haya, Nyamwezi, Sumbwa, Kuria, Luo, Jita, and Shashi. In 2022 the Tanzania National Bureau...
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East Nyamwezi Masele 2001 F20: Sukuma-Nyamwezi F23 suw Sumbwa (Kisumbwa, Shisumbwa, Shumbwa), Sisiloombo, Siyoombe Masele 2001 F20: Sukuma-Nyamwezi F24...
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Tanzanian justice organizations established originally by the Sukuma and Nyamwezi ethnic groups in 1981 to protect cattle from theft and other property....
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Jamhuri Jazz Band was a dance band founded as the Nyamwezi Jazz Band in late the 1950s in Tanga, Tanzania when the country was known as Tanganyika. At...
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