The Mang'anja are a Bantu people of central and southern

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, particularly around

Chikwawa Chikwawa is a town with a population of 6,114 according to the 2018 census located in the Southern Region, Malawi, Southern Region of Malawi on the west bank of the Shire River. It is the administrative capital of the Chikwawa District. Chikwawa l ...

in the

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valley of southern

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. They speak a dialect of the

Nyanja Chewa (also known as Nyanja, ) is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa, namely the countries of Malawi , where it is an official language, and Mozambique and Zambia. The noun class prefix ''chi-'' is used for l ...

language, and are a branch of the Amaravi people. As of 1996 their population was estimated at 2,486,070.

Notable Mang'anja people

* Edward Bwanali * Yusuf Jonas Msume * Moses Dosi * Sidick Mia * Davis Kapito * Evison Matafale *(Peter Mpota) *

Gwanda Chakuamba Gwandaguluwe "Gwanda" Chakuamba Phiri (4 April 1934 – 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 Z ...

References

External links

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