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	nyamwesi
		The 500,000 Nyamwezi people, whose name means either "Men of the West" or "Men of the Moon", are the largest ethnic agrarian group in north-central Tanzania.
		Ancestors and chiefs have been of considerable importance in the belief system and socio-political structure of the Nyamwezi, and consequently most of their art relates to these themes: theirs is one of the richest art traditions in Tanzania.
		Nyamwezi carvers are also famous for their figures that are usually carved out of a dark, heavy wood with a shiny surface.
	www.zyama.com /nyamwezi/pics..htm (182 words)

	Nyamwezi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to oral tradition, the Nyamwezi are thought to have settled in west central Tanzania (their present location) some time in the 1600s.
		From 1860-1884, the Nyamwezi were ruled by a military leader and Mtemi (king) named Mirambo who gathered considerable wealth from general trade and the collection of mahongo.
		The Nyamwezi are known for their humorous songs which are played on a stringed cowherd's harp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nyamwezi (857 words)

	Sukuma/African bibliography
		I have been compiling this bibliography in the course of research on the folklore of the Sukuma and Nyamwezi of Tanzania, which I began in 1993.
		The Sukuma and Nyamwezi, who are often assumed to be essentially the same people, are among the most well-studied of Tanzania's ethnic groups.
		The Sukuma and Nyamwezi may safely be considered close enough to be discussed together, but I have included entries on neighbouring groups such as the Kara and the Kerewe, who live on islands in Lake Victoria.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/mbele/bibliography.htm (3987 words)

	Ethnologue: Tanzania
		Southwest and west of the Konongo, south and southeast of the Nyamwezi; Chunya District, southern Highlands Province, Manyoni District, Central Province; 23% in traditional area.
		South of the Nyamwezi, across the Ugalla River, in the northwest corner of Mpanda District, Western Province; 25% live in the tribal area.
		Dialects contiguous with Nyamwezi are intelligible with it.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Tanz.html (5014 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		The traditional homelands ofthe Sukuma and Nyamwezi are in western Tanzania, south of Lake Victoria.
		The Nyamwezi refer to themselves as Banyamwezi (plural) and Munyamwezi (singular).
		Also, before German rule, the Sukuma and Nyamwezi acted as middle-men in the trade with the Swahili on the coast.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/tethnic.htm (1248 words)

	languagehat.com: NYAMWEZI.
		In the entry for Sukuma, an important language of northern Tanzania, there is also information about its sister language Nyamwezi (spoken by far fewer people but noticed first by Europeans), including one of the most remarkable etymologies I've seen for an ethnonym:
		'The term Nyamwezi is of Swahili origin, and is fairly recent.
		Now, every other source says Nyamwezi simply means 'people of the moon [mwezi]' (or possibly 'people of the west [mweli]'), and it's a melancholy truth that the more boring etymology is usually correct.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001169.php (398 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / SukumaNyamwezi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sukuma and Nyamwezi, which form a dialect continuum, are placed in the Sukuma-Nyamwezi Group of Bantu (Guthrie F20).
		Sukuma (Dialects contiguous with Nyamwezi are intelligible with it.)
		Lexical similarity between Sukuma and Nyamwezi is 84%.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/SukumaNyamwezi (226 words)

	Travel Off The Beaten Path to a Unique Tanzanian Experience - Tanzania - BootsnAll.com
		The Nyamwezi tribe survives on farming and cattle but they are famous for their art of drumming.
		In the mother tongue of the Nyamwezi tribe, ngoma means the festival - competition of clans in playing the drums.
		During this big event the Nyamwezi clan's style is to find "the one" with the magic power of the drums.
	www.bootsnall.com /travelstories/africa/apr02drums.shtml (1138 words)

	Tanzania Population
		The majority of Tanzanians, including such large tribes as the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi, are of Bantu stock.
		Groups of Nilotic or related origin include the nomadic Masai and the Luo, both of which are found in greater numbers in neighboring Kenya.
		An estimated 70,000 Arabs and 10,000 Europeans reside in Tanzania.
	www.nationbynation.com /Tanzania/Population.html (174 words)

	Sukuma/ Nyamwezi Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sukuma and Nyamwezi, spoken in western Tanzania, form a dialect continuum.
		Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) break this down to 890,000 Sukuma and 365,000 Nyamwezi speakers, while Grimes (1996) cites figures of 5 million and 926,000, respectively.
		Scheven (personal communication, 1984) states that Sukuma and Nyamwezi have been taught separately and that two sets of teaching materials would be needed, despite the mutual intelligibility of these dialects.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Sukuma_root.html (136 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo: History
		In the mid-19th cent., Arab, Swahili, and Nyamwezi traders from present-day Tanzania penetrated into E Congo, where they traded and raided for slaves and ivory.
		Msiri (a Nyamwezi) established himself near Mwata Kazembe in 1856, soon enlarged his holdings (mainly at the expense of Mwata Kazembe), and was a major force until 1891, when he was killed by the Belgians.
		From the 1860s to the early 1890s, Muhammad bin Hamad (known as Tippu Tib), a Swahili Arab trader from Zanzibar, who was also part Nyamwezi, ruled a large portion of E Congo NW of Lake Tanganyika.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0857522.html (3348 words)

	Web resources for Bantu languages
		Indigenous communication systems: lessons and experience from among the Sukuma and Nyamwezi in west-central Tanzania (PDF).
		Verbal extensions in Bantu: the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi (PDF).
		The Tanzanian Language Survey: a 1000-wordlist for Nyamwezi.
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/bantuf.html (426 words)

	Western Tanzania * Partner Provices * Moravian Board of World Mission
		German Moravian missionaries arrived in the Lake Nyasa region of Tanganyika in the early 1890s and started churches that were later to become the Moravian Church in Southern Tanzania.
		European colonial politics opened the door for Moravian missionaries to begin ministry among the Nyamwezi people in the Tabora region, many miles to the north and west of Lake Nyasa (commonly known today as Lake Malawi).
		Predominantly Nyamwezi in ethnic composition, MCWT has planted churches among the Tutsi, Wakimbu, Waha and Sukuma people as well.
	www.moravianmission.org /partnerprovinces/tanzania.phtml (680 words)

	Adherents.com
		"Nyamwezi: Location: Unyamwezi (Tanzania: Provinces of Tabora and Shinyunga); Population: 1 million; Religion: spirituality shaped by traditional beliefs; Islam; and Christianity "; Pg.
		While many rural Nyamwezi are not practicing Christians or Muslims, they do believe in one overarching god...
		Rather than competing with Christianity, Islam, and modern medicine, traditional Nyamwezi beliefs and diviners supplement the newer religions and practices.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_481.html (2732 words)

	Reader Rwanda Origin
		The story say that it was unfortunate because it was the King who was not able to get children.
		When Nyamwezi left Sabiyogera, she conceived and got her first born named Sabizeze.
		The news reached the King, and the child was brought to the royal house.
	www.orwelltoday.com /readerrwandaorigin.shtml (1155 words)

	Tanzania National Website
		Along this route ivory appears to have been as great an attraction as slaves, and Sa'id bin Sultan himself, after the transfer of his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar, gave every encouragement to the Arabs to pursue these trading possibilities.
		From the Nyamwezi country the Arabs pressed on to Lake Tanganyika in the early 1840s.
		Tabora (or Kazé, as it was then called) and Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, became important trading centres, and a number of Arabs made their homes there.
	www.tanzania.go.tz /history.html (6761 words)

	Come to Nyamwezi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		February titled “Council Hatches New Plan to Clean Arusha” aroused great interest and suspicion especially to Nyamwezi Street residents and business people whether there whether another new tactic to fool the public.
		Meanwhile we request our honorable medical officer, Dr. Job Laizer to visit the Nyamwezi Street in person to see with his naked eyes the worsening situation of this street and do the needful before the outbreak of cholera takes place.
		Meanwhile let us wait and see what actions are in the pipeline beginning next week.
	www.arushatimes.co.tz /2002/8/mailbag_1.htm (108 words)

	Youth on Mission \| WMU: Woman's Missionary Union
		Slowly he begins to foretell of disaster and sickness that will strike the family lest they allow him to utter incantations and present offerings to the spirits.
		Divination among the Nyamwezi of Tanzania is a respected trade.
		There are 1.3 million Nyamwezi in Tanzania and fewer than 2 percent are evangelical believers.
	www.youthonmission.com /lastfrontier.asp (387 words)

	Tanzania Heads of State
		According to some sources she was Sultan Mugalula of Nyamwezi in 1893 – but Nyamwezi was the name of the ruling dynasty in Kiwele.
		She abdicated as Sultan of Nyamwezi the same year.
		Daughter of Sultana Mugalula, who reigned 1893-95 Msavila abdicated and was succeeded by Chief and sultan Katugamoto, who was deposed in 1898.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Tanzania_Heads.htm (275 words)

	Nyamwezi (?) marionette figures - RAND AFRICAN ART
		Marionette figures from the Nyamwezi people of Tanzania
		These articulated figures with movable arms and legs are from the Nyamwezi people of Tanzania.
		Figures depicting a male and female figure, like these below, were given as wedding gifts.
	www.randafricanart.com /Zaramo_marionette_figures.html (202 words)

	Maji-Maji
		They were however about to face more revolts in the interior.
		Starting in 1891, Nyamwezi Chief Isike fought the Germans in Tabora region in the Western part of Tanganyika.
		Defeated in 1892, rather than surrendering, he blew himself up in the armoury of his fort in January 1893.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00366.html (974 words)

	Ngoni
		Chief Mirambo, a local warlord, turned the supremacy in long-distance trading and porterage into a political, economic and military system by uniting the numerous Nyamwezi clans into a powerful kingdom in 1870 with its capita) in Urambo.
		Between 1876 and 1881 he undertook missions to make alliances with neighbouring rulers and led expeditions to Burundi, the Vinza and Tongwe in the West, the Pimbwe and Konongo in the South, the Nyaturu, Iramba and Sukuma in eastern Tanzania, and to Kabaka Mutesa of Uganda.
		German colonisation brought them under control by 1910 but not without very bloody and violent resistance.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00942.html (924 words)

	Pray for the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In Tanzania, one the largest people groups are the Wanyamwezi, or Nyamwezi people.
		Here is an example of a typical house in the country.
		To learn more about the Nyamwezi people click here to see a recent People Group Survey by a short-term missionary couple.
	www.peopleteams.org /nyamwezi (415 words)

	OHCHR: Kinyamwezi (Nyamwezi) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		OHCHR: Kinyamwezi (Nyamwezi) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		There are 926,000 speakers of Nyamwezi, comprising 4.2% of population.
		There are various dialects of the Nyamwezi language: NYANYEMBE, TAKAMA (GARAGANZA), MWERI (SUMBWA, KONONGO, KIYA).
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/nyz.htm (1144 words)

	Why ignore Nyamwezi? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Often the paper carries criticism related to the bad state of the street due vendors invasion.
		We would like our Mayor, District Commissioner and Municipal Doctor to come and view what is happening at Nyamwezi street.
		I Hope the authorities take action earlier before the situation goes out of hand.
	www.arushatimes.co.tz /2002/9/mailbag_1.htm (127 words)

	Indigenous multipurpose trees of Tanzania: Uses and economic benefits for people - 4. Species list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Local Names: mgandu (GOGO); nyahumbu (POGORO); mkuni (NYAMWEZI); okoo (SANDAWI).
		Local Names: mbadilo (HEHE); mlama, chinama (MATENGO, YAO); muluzyaminzi (NYAMWEZI).
		Potential Uses: building materials, firewood, fruit, land improvement (nitrogen fixing), medicine (some people do not use this tree as it is believed to possess evil powers).
	www.fao.org /docrep/X5327e/x5327e07.htm (5530 words)

	T4 Image Rev. W/Ans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This staff head may have belonged to a spiritial leader, and it represented ancestral power and fertility.
		EAf: Nyamwezi ("people of the moon"), Great Rift Valley, W Tanzania.
		Willett considers most Makonde work within the Luba style group.
	www.members.aol.com /risingraindrops/africa2/t4/t4.img.rev.w-ans.html (1120 words)

	Guestbook - Kelly Green Evangelistic Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		We are praying that the Nyamwezi (Nyom-WAY-zee) tribe of Tabora, Tanzania will come to know Jesus.
		Thank you for your support, and preaching, and I hope that we can cooperate together to do his work and to cooperate with Baptists to properly evangelize this people group.
		I would appreciate your ideas and suggestions for the crosstracts website, and for our initial strategy to do ABUNDANT evangelism among the Nyamwezi people.
	www.kellygreen.org /guestbook.asp (3578 words)

	Tanzania - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Tanzania - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Tanganyika, populated by many Bantu groups, such as the Chagga, Hehe, Gogo, Yao, and Nyamwezi, and by the Masai and other Nilotic peoples, was defined by a series of treaties between European states in the decade after 1886.
		These ignored the claims of the sultan of Zanzibar, giving the Germans control over the vast reaches of Tanganyika and reserving Kenya and Uganda for Britain.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /tanzania.htm (1030 words)

	Africa Today--From "Dancing with Porcupines" to "Twirling a Hoe": Musical Labor Transformed in Sukumaland, Tanzania
		According to most sources, the original bagobogobo dance group began as the bakhonongo.
		It is unclear what the origins of this term are, but many believe that it originated in reference to a group of individuals migrating from Konongo, a linguistic group related to the Sukuma and Nyamwezi and residing just south of Nyamweziland.
		A related explanation is that those people occupying the area south of the Ugalla river (the Warungwa) had historically been famous smelters and traders of iron hoes called khonongo; thus, the term bakhonongo was a kind of nickname applied to anyone who became a trader in hoes (Kilasa 1975).
	iupjournals.org /africatoday/aft48-4.html (7261 words)

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