The Kimbu are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group from Chunya District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania. In 1987 the Kimbu population was estimated to number 78,000. [1]

the Kimbu culture and multi-chiefdoms system of Tanzania bears all the easily recognized traits of a classic. Its ten chapters exhibit a magnitude of erudition concerning the political permutations and customary usages of Kimbu society that will be hard to outdistance by future researchers investigating other ethnic groupings in East Africa.

Okiek, a Kalenjin-speaking people of the Southern Nilotic language group inhabiting southwestern Kenya. “Okiek,” a Kalenjin word, and “Dorobo,” derived from a Maasai term, are both sobriquets meaning “hunter.” They refer in a derogatory manner to those who keep no cattle, and hence who are “poor” according to the pastoralists of the same area.

One of the riddles of African history is why chiefdoms proliferate. This critical study of the historical traditions of the Kimbu people reconstructs the processes of formation of chiefdoms in their country. It also sheds light on the history of neighbouring peoples in.

2011年6月15日 · When Kenya gained its independence with Jomo Kenyatta as its first leader, he assembled a group of Kiambu men, mostly relatives, who ruled the country with an iron fist. With the President, the Attorney General, the Foreign minister, Defence minister, a minister of State, and the Commissioner of Police all from Kiambu, the levers of power were ...

2021年6月16日 · This presentation aims at introducing the Kimbu (Bantu, Niger-Congo) language spoken across central Tanzania by loosely-associated communities totaling no more than 62,000 (Muzale and Rugemalira 2008). The primary focus of this study is initial documentation of the Kimbu language with a special focus on its unique culture; nomadism.

2019年10月2日 · This talk provides an overview of the ELDP-funded project which will take place over the coming year to document the Kimbu language and elements of nomadism present in Kimbu culture. Kimbu (ISO 639-3 kiv; glottolog kimb1242) is a Niger-Congo Narrow Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania by about 62 000 people (Muzale and Rugemalira 2008).

Kimbu is a Bantu, Niger-Congo language spoken across a wide swathe of central Tanzania by loosely-associated communities totaling no more than 62,672 (Muzale and Rugemalira 2008). Sharply decreasing numbers, sparsely-distributed population, and largely negative attitudes of speakers toward speaking Kimbu (Simons and Fenig 2018, Gabriel 2018 ...

A group of four Kimbu ['Bachimbu'] chiefs. Two men are sitting. one man and a woman stand. Imprinted on the image: "Vier Bachimbu-Häuptlinge. (eine Frau.) D.O.A. No. 1026." ("Four Kimbu ['Bachimbu'] chiefs. (one woman.) German East Africa No. 1026.").

The Kimbu of Tanzania, numbering 215,000, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are part of the Bantu, Central-Tanzania people cluster within the Sub-Saharan African affinity bloc. This people group is only found in Tanzania. Their primary language is Kimbu.