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Sukuma
Sukuma dancers
Total population
10,210,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Tanzania
Languages
Sukuma
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Traditional African religions[2]
Related ethnic groups
Nyamwezi, Kimbu and Sumbwa
Sukuma
Person
Nsukuma
People
Basukuma,
Language
Kisukuma
Country
Busukuma
The Sukuma are a Bantu ethnic group from the southeastern African Great Lakes region. They are the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, with an estimated 10 million members or 16 percent of the country's total population. Sukuma means "north" and refers to "people of the north." The Sukuma refer to themselves as Basukuma (plural) and Nsukuma (singular).
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population. Sukuma means "north" and refers to "people of the north." The Sukuma refer to themselves as Basukuma (plural) and Nsukuma (singular). The Sukuma live...
the Nyamwezi as the Dakama, meaning 'people of the south', and the Dakama would refer to the Sukuma as 'people of the north'. Their homeland is called...
dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukumapeople, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...
Sukuma may refer to: the Sukumapeople the Sukuma language the Swahili name for Colewort the dish sukuma wiki, of which it is the main ingredient This...
zamiifolia are used as a local application to treat ulceration by the Sukumapeople in north-western Tanzania. Zamioculcas zamiifolia contains acylated...
in Maswa District, Simiyu Region, Tanzania. It is inhabited by the Sukumapeople. 3°10′52″S 33°46′50″E / 3.1811°S 33.7806°E / -3.1811; 33.7806 v t...
a Bantu farming people, began living just south of Hadzaland around 1850. The Hadza also have contact with the Maasai and the Sukuma west of Lake Eyasi...
2010[update]), the Sukuma of Tanzania (10.2 million as of 2016[update]), the Kikuyu of Kenya (8.1 million as of 2019[update]), the Xhosa people of Southern Africa...
led a failed insurrection against governmental forces. Tanzania The Sukumapeople of Tanzania believe in spirit possession. A now-extinct spirit possession...
around the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria that is inhabited by the Sukumapeople. Wada, S. (1975). Political history of Mbulu district: Power struggles...
The population consists of about 125 ethnic groups. The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples have more than 1 million members each.: 4 Over 100 languages...
population of 2,241,299. The Shinyanga region, which once belonged to the Sukuma territory, is situated 20 to 160 kilometres south of Lake Victoria. The...
today's Mwanza City, the son called out, "nye-nsukumale-aha", meaning "I, a Sukuma am here". It is from this phrase, and camp that the name Usukuma, (Sukumaland)...
Stewart Sukuma, born Luis Pereira in 1963, is a Mozambican singer. Sukuma's stage name means "rise up" in Xitsonga and "push" in Swahili. He was born...
Kanumba (8 January 1984 – 7 April 2012) was a Tanzanian actor and director of Sukuma heritage, born in Shinyanga Region. Kanumba died in 2012 at the age of 28...
Royal Museum for Central Africa South Sudan or Northern Uganda. Acholi people, trough zither (center back), arched harp (left), unnamed flute (right)...
to organize and mobilize people. I was Julius Nyerere's right hand man during the fight for independence. The Sukumapeople were the largest tribe in...
infanticide upon an albino child seeing it as a bad omen, practiced by the Sukuma, the Digo and the Maasai.: 5 However, in some tribes the albinos were made...
northwestern part of Tanzania with the Sukuma, the Haya, the Zinza, the Hangaza and the Subi ethnic groups. The Ha people grow sorghum, millet, corn (maize)...
also threatened by collection for use in traditional medicine. The Sukumapeople believe that pneumonia can be treated by burning the body of a Tanzanian...
bread. Solid ugali is usually served with traditional vegetables, stew or sukuma-wiki (also known as collard greens). It is the most common staple starch...
ISO code) as closest to Fipa. Otherwise the dialects are Milanzi (Fipa-Sukuma, Icisukuuma), South Fipa, Kandaasi (Icikandaasi), Siiwa (Icisiiwa), Nkwaamba...
likely that the patient drinks the blood in order to feel the effects. The Sukuma tribe of Tanzania have been known to use python feces in order to treat...
the five districts of the Simiyu Region of Tanzania Inhabited by Sukuma (Nyantuzu People). It is bordered to the north by Magu District and Itilima District...
Simion (7 May 2015). "A study on use of animals as traditional medicine by Sukuma Tribe of Busega District in North-western Tanzania". Journal of Ethnobiology...
(pronounced Vahi) is the German spelling of the Sukuma name for either the Hadza west of the lake, or perhaps a Sukuma clan that traces its ancestry to the Hadza...
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