The Nindi are an astari putri group based in southern

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, in the

Songea Songea is the capital of Ruvuma Region in southwestern Tanzania. It is located along the A19 road. The city has a population of 286,285,Ruvuma Region Ruvuma Region (''Mkoa wa Ruvuma'' in Swahili language, Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative Regions of Tanzania, regions. The region covers a land area of , comparable in size to the nation state of Latvia. The region is also bordered ...

close to the border with

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. Ethnologue estimates that the Nindi population is now only 100 peopl

The group is virtually unknown outside Songea.

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Ethnic groups in Tanzania Indigenous peoples of East Africa {{tanzania-ethno-group-stub