Zanaki people
The Zanaki are an ethnic and linguistic group from the heart of Mara Region, 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]
Famous people
Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), the founder and first president of Tanzania was a Zanaki and was the son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942), who was chief of the Zanaki,[3] and of Christina Mgaya wa Nyang'ombe (1897-1997).[4]
His firstborn child, Andrew Nyerere, said his father had Luo ancestry.
Veteran Kenyan columnist and political analyst, Philip Ochieng, a Luo, stated in an article in the Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, that the Zanaki, an ethnic group to which President Nyerere belonged, were related by blood to Ochieng's subethnic group.
References
- 1 2 Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 609. ISBN 0-313-27918-7.
- ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=zak
- ↑ Clagett Taylor, James (1963). The political development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-8047-0147-4.
- ↑ Nkulu, Kiluba L. (2005). Serving the Common Good: A Postcolonial African Perspective on Higher Education. Peter Lang Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 0-8204-7626-9.
