Zanaki people

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The Zanaki people are a small Bantu ethnic group of northwestern Tanzania, traditionally inhabiting the area around Lake Victoria and known as the ethnic group of Julius Nyerere, the country’s first president.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Zanaki people canonical 4

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu people
ethnic group
associatedWith Mara Region
associatedWithHistoricalFigure Julius Nyerere
continent Africa
country Tanzania
countryOfCitizenshipForManyMembers Tanzania
countryOfOriginOfNotableLeader Julius Nyerere
culturalArea Great Lakes Region of Africa
surface form: Great Lakes region of Africa
ethnicGroupOf Tanzania
ethnolinguisticGroup Zanaki
geographicContext East Africa
hasDemonym Mzanaki
hasEthnonym Wazanaki
historicalRegion Mara Region
languageFamily Bantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
languageStatus minority language in Tanzania
locatedNear Lake Victoria
neighboringPeoples Kurya people
Sukuma people
Zanaki people self-link
notableMember Julius Nyerere
partOf Bantu peoples
surface form: Bantu peoples of East Africa

ethnic groups of Tanzania
politicallySignificantAs ethnic group of Julius Nyerere
primaryEconomicActivity fishing
livestock keeping
subsistence agriculture
region northwestern Tanzania
religion Christianity
Islam
traditional African religions
traditionalCrops bananas
cassava
maize
millet
sorghum
traditionalLivelihood small-scale farming
traditionalLivestock cattle
goats
sheep
traditionalReligion ancestor veneration
spirit worship
traditionalSettlementPattern rural villages
traditionalTerritory area around Lake Victoria
usesLanguage Zanaki language

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ukerewe Island ethnicGroup Zanaki people
Lake Victoria zone hasEthnicGroup Zanaki people
Zanaki people neighboringPeoples Zanaki people self-link