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.jpg) A picture of Ngoni girls at Livingstonia, Nyasaland | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Malawi: 758,000, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique | |
| Languages | |
| Tumbuka, Ngoni, Chewa, Zulu, Nsenga, Venda, Ndendeule, English, Portuguese | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, African Traditional Religion, Sangoma, Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Nguni (especially Zulu) |
The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Nguni and Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The displacement of the Nguni people in the great scattering following the Zulu wars had repercussions in social reorganization as far north as Malawi and Zambia.[1]
- ^ Thompson, T. Jack (1995). Christianity in Northern Malaŵi: Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 1–29. ISBN 978-90-04-31996-7.