Zanaki people

The Zanaki are an ethnic and linguistic group based in northwestern Tanzania, to the east of Lake Victoria.[1] In 1987 the Zanaki population was estimated to number 62,000.[2] The group is subdivided into the Birus and the Buturis.[1]

Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), the first president of Tanzania was a Zanaki and was the son of Nyerere Burito (1860–1942), who was chief of the Zanaki.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 609. ISBN 0313279187. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C&pg=PA609. 
  2. ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=zak
  3. ^ Clagett Taylor, James (1963). The political development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. pp. 95. ISBN 0804701474. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H2qmAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA95.