Mang'anja

Bantu ethnic group of Southern and Central Africa

The Mang'anja are a Bantu people of central and southern Africa, particularly around Chikwawa in the Shire River valley of southern Malawi. They speak a dialect of the Nyanja language, and are a branch of the Amaravi people. As of 1996 their population was estimated at 2,486,070.[1]

Notable Mang'anja people

  • Edward Bwanali
  • Yusuf Jonas Msume
  • Moses Dosi
  • Sidick Mia
  • Davis Kapito
  • Evison Matafale
  • (Peter Mpota)
  • Gwanda Chakuamba

References

  1. ^ "The Maravi (Nyanja) of Malawi". Orville Boyd Jenkins. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  • David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892). A cyclopaedic dictionary of the Mang'anja language: spoken in British Central Africa. Printed for the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

External links

  • "Cultures - Mang'anja". Wawa Malawi Group. Retrieved 2011-03-08.