Zanaki people

The Zanaki are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group from the heart of Mara Region, Tanzania, to the east of Lake Victoria.[1] [2] The group is subdivided into the Birus and the Buturis.[1]

Zanaki(Aba-Zanaki)
Total population
200,000
Regions with significant populations
 Tanzania
Languages
IkiZanaki, Kiswahili
Religion
African Traditional Religion, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Abakuria, Abagusii, Ngurimi, Ikoma

Notable people

  • Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), the founder and first president of Tanzania was a Zanaki and was the son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942), who was chief of the Zanaki,[3] and of Christina Mgaya wa Nyang'ombe (1891-1997).[4]
  • David Musuguri (1920-2024), Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force 1980–1988[5]
  • Joseph Sinde Warioba served as Prime Minister of Tanzania from 1985 to 1990. Furthermore, he served concurrently as the country's Vice President. He has also served as a judge on the East African Court of Justice, and as chairman of the Tanzanian Constitutional Review Commission since 2012

References

  1. ^ a b Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 609. ISBN 0-313-27918-7.
  2. ^ "Zanaki".
  3. ^ Clagett Taylor, James (1963). The political development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. pp. 95. ISBN 0-8047-0147-4.
  4. ^ Nkulu, Kiluba L. (2005). Serving the Common Good: A Postcolonial African Perspective on Higher Education. Peter Lang Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 0-8204-7626-9.
  5. ^ Molony 2014, p. 239.



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