The Ngindo are an ethnic and linguistic group based in southern
Pwani Region
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and northern
Lindi Region means in current area includes
Liwale
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and
Kilwa
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districts in current
Tanzania
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or former
Tanganyika
Tanganyika may refer to:
Places
* Tanganyika Territory (1916–1961), a former British territory which preceded the sovereign state
* Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania
* Tanzania Main ...
, who speak the
Ngindo and
Ndendeule languages. In 1987 the Ngindo population was estimated to number 220,000
Prominent Ngindo people include. Saidi Alli Amanzi former District Commissioner of Masasi, Nyamagana, Morogoro and Singida from 2006 to 2016, Poet Amir Abdallah Sudi '
Andanenga' whose nickname Andanenga derives from two Ngindo words where anda means like and
nenga means right me or me, therefore better translated as like me and some others.
Ethnic groups in Tanzania
Indigenous peoples of East Africa
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