The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Kenya. The Makonde developed their culture on the Mueda Plateau in Mozambique...

Makonde may refer to: Makonde people, an ethnic group from East Africa Makonde art, the art of the Makonde people Makonde language, the language spoken...

name Makonde art refers to East African sculptures or, less frequently, to modern paintings created by craftspeople or artists belonging to the Makonde people...

Makonde chess sets are made by the Makonde people of southwest Tanzania and Mozambique, carved in the Makonde's distinctive style. Chess sets were originally...

Makonde, or Kimakonde, is the language spoken by the Makonde, an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Makonde is a central Bantu...

born in Namau in Mueda District, Cabo Delgado Province, belonging to the Makonde ethnic group. Both his parents were veterans of the liberation movement...

shetani are a popular subject of carved artwork, especially by the Makonde people of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Kenya. Physically, shetani of various types...

Ruvuma River into Mozambique. The Makonde people inhabit the plateau and the adjacent lowlands. The Makonde people also inhabit the Mueda Plateau, which...

the late 1970s and until the early 21st century. He belonged to the Makonde people and lived most of his life in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania...

region inhabited mostly by the Makonde people; the coastal districts of the northeast, inhabited by the Mwani people are instead overwhelming Muslim...

Lindi District, was first settled by Machinga people in the north, the Mwera in the west and the Makonde in the south of the district. The Lindi District...

by the Makonde people of East Africa in ndimu ceremonies. Ngil mask from Gabon or Cameroon; wood colored with kaolin (chiny clay); by Fang people; Ethnological...

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they shared similarities with the neighboring Makonde people. The Mwera people, like the Makonde people who share the Rovuma valley, have a historic musical...

Mueda [ˈmwɛða] is the largest town of the Makonde Plateau in northeastern Mozambique. It is the capital of the Mueda District in Cabo Delgado Province...

Makonde District is a district in Zimbabwe. The district is located in Mashonaland West Province, in north central Zimbabwe. Its main town, Chinhoyi,...

Barabaig people of Tanzania have a cultural practice of scarification for women, which produces a scarified design pattern of dots. The Makonde people of Tanzania...

paintings, namely the traditional hut wall decorations of Makua and Makonde people. These paintings were first witnessed by Karl Weule in 1906 and described...

The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The...

are the numerous Portuguese words that have entered Shona, Tsonga and Makonde. Today, mixed race communities exist across the region, notably so in South...

which was occupied by the heavily armed Makonde people. The Niassa Company only managed to suppress the Makonde by the early 1920s, and the tribe later...

bordering Pwani Region. Machinga people are a small minority with Kilwa District in eastern Lindi Region. Lastly the Makonde people are found on the south-eastern...

reduction over more than a century. The Makonde people inhabit the plateau and the adjacent lowlands. The Makonde Plateau, which lies immediately north...

Shangaan (Tsonga) dominate in southern Mozambique. Other groups include Makonde, Yao, Swahili, Tonga, Chopi, and Nguni (including Zulu). The country is...

Mtwara. Mtwara Region is home to one of the most infuluential people in Tanzania, the Makonde. Mtwara is home to Tanzania's 4th president Benjamin Mkapa...

Kimaryo points out that the distinctive tattoo marks are common among the Makonde. Architecture included arches, courtyards, isolated women's quarters, the...

Mozambican ceramicist who produces work that originates in traditional Makonde pottery, while incorporating her own techniques and conceptions of femininity...

blend of realism and mythology. For instance, the Makonde people have a tale about the "first Makonde," which explains why subsequent generations reside...

 • Density 74/km2 (190/sq mi) Demonym District Lindian Ethnic groups  • Settler Swahili  • Native Mwera & Makonde people Website https://lindimc.go.tz/...

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