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The Mang'anja are a Bantu people of Southern Malawi, particularly around
Chikwawa Chikwawa is a town with a population of 6,114 according to the 2018 census located in the Southern Region of Malawi on the west bank of the Shire River. It is the administrative capital of the Chikwawa District. Chikwawa lies almost south of B ...
in the
Shire River The Shire is the largest river in Malawi. It is the only outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Its length is . The upper Shire River issues from Lake Malawi and runs approximately before it enters shallow Lake Malo ...
valley of southern
Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
. They speak a dialect of the
Nyanja Chewa ( ; also known as Nyanja ) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix ''chi-'' is used for languages, so the language is often called or Chinyanja. In Malawi, the name wa ...
language, and are a branch of the
Amaravi Maravi was an empire that comprised central and southern Malawi, parts of Mozambique, and eastern Zambia, from at least the early 15th century. The Chewa language, also known as Nyanja, is the main language that emerged from the empire. The Ba ...
people.


Notable Mang'anja people

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Edward Bwanali Edward Bwanali was a Malawian politician. Bwanali was foreign minister of his country from 1994 to 1996. Bwanali died in 1998. He was the minister of finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of gover ...
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Gwanda Chakuamba Gwandaguluwe "Gwanda" Chakuamba Phiri (4 April 1935 – 24 October 2016) was a Malawian politician who was the leader of the New Republican Party (NRP). He hailed from Nsanje, a district on the southern part of Malawi. Gwanda Chakuamba attended ...


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* {{authority control Chewa Bantu peoples Ethnic groups in Malawi