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Unyamwezi is a
historical region in what is now Tanzania,
around the
modern city of
Tabora to the
south of Lake
Victoria and east of Lake Tanganyika....
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refer to the
Sukuma as 'people of the north'.
Their homeland is
called Unyamwezi, and they
speak the
language Kinyamwezi, but many also
speak Swahili or...
- vegetation. As with the Nyamwezi, all
members of the five
groups in
Greater Unyamwezi identified themselves as
Wanyamwezi to
those outside of the "greater"...
- Arab traders, and
rivals of
Mirambo for the
control of the
trade across Unyamwezi.
These Arabs had
powerful allies in
Zanzibar on the coast. For most of...
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north to
Mbogwe in
Usumbwa where they
fought with the
famous Mirambo of
Unyamwezi. The
current king of the
Ngoni is his great-great-grandson, M'Mbelwa V...
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impacts of large-scale
labour migration on "labour reservoirs" such as
Unyamwezi and
Usukuma were
often devastating.
Beginning in 1888 the
Usambara Railway...
- Africa. By
Richard Burton Abrahams, R. G. (2017). The
Peoples of
Greater Unyamwezi,Tanzania (Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sumbwa, Kimbu, Konongo): East
Central Africa...
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Three missionaries,
confined to the
coastal belt,
heard of the
region of
Unyamwezi in the
northwest of what is now
Tanzania and
exaggerated its size to include...
- mid-18th century,
traders dressed “as Arabs”,
although coming from the
Unyamwezi region of what is now
Tanzania were
involved in
trading for
ivory and...
- the east,
coming from the Usambaras; and the south,
maybe coming from
Unyamwezi and the Nguu highlands.
Another factor supporting the idea that the arrival...
