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Nyamwezi people, of Tanzania
Nyamwezi language, their Bantu language
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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...
Look up Nyamwezi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nyamwezi may refer to: Nyamwezi people, of Tanzania Nyamwezi language, their Bantu language This...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
and reciprocal ĩ. It is reported that although Sukuma is very similar to Nyamwezi, speakers themselves do not accept that they make up a single language...
391,679. The name "Tabora" (Nyamwezi language: Matoborwa) meaning sweet potatoes, a common food ingredient among the Nyamwezi people. Foreigners corrupted...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tanzanian justice organizations established originally by the Sukuma and Nyamwezi ethnic groups in 1981 to protect cattle from theft and other property....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
servant quarters, and outbuildings for slaves. The town was surrounded by Nyamwezi villages, whose people provided produce and caravan labor. In this period...
of Urambo. The name "Urambo" (Nyamwezi language: ) meaning Home of the Urambo, a 19th century kingdom of the Nyamwezi people. In the 19th century, Urambo...
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