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Wanyamwezi|wənjæmˈweɪzɪ|
Also Wanyamwesi.
[Native name, lit. ‘people of the moon’, hence (prob.) ‘people of the West’.]
The name of a Bantu people of Tanzania.
1860R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. II. xii. 4 The correct designation of the inhabitants of Unyamwezi is, therefore, Mnyamwezi in the singular, and Wanyamwezi in the plural: Kinyamwezi is the adjectival form. Ibid., According to the people..in the days of the grandfathers of their grandfathers the last of the Wanyamwezi emperors died. 1911J. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. v. 268 The Wanyamwesi, a large tribe of Central Africa, to the south of the Victoria Nyanza. 1947E. Afr. Ann. 1946–7 93/1 The Wanyamwezi have been one of the better known tribes of Tanganyika from the time when Arab slave raiders first set up their centre at Tabora. 1955Hill & Moffett Tanganyika 515 The Wanyamwezi are one of the more virile and hard-working tribes of the Territory, and also one of the largest. |