Ngindo people

The Ngindo (also Njindo or Magindo ) are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania. Their language is the Bantu language Ngindo ( Kingindo ). Their population was estimated at 220,000 in 1987.

The Ngindo and the Mwera are probably immigrated more recently from the south to its present area. They have no tradition of centralized political order and are so-called " staatslos ".

In the 19th century Ngindo were affected by the East African slave trade. In addition, they were greatly distressed by the centralized and warlike Ngoni, who advanced as a result of the Mfecane in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. The pressure of the Ngoni led the Ngindo and other ethnic groups such as the Makonde and Mwera to retire to better -protected areas on the plateaus. The Ngindo, who had previously lived in widely scattered settlements, had to retreat into the bush or pull in larger villages. Their settlement area shifted from the headwaters of the rivers Sasarawa, Luwegu Mbemkuru and further east to the area around Liwale and Madaba.

After the raids of slave hunters and the Ngoni Ngindo in the 1890s were the beginning of the German colonial rule by selling rubber relatively wealthy. 1905, they joined the first begun by the Matumbi Maji Maji rebellion. The immediate reason was the introduction of a program, the village communities committed to jointly cultivate cotton for the colonial power.

The failure of the Maji Maji cult - whose followers believed that magic water ( maji ) would protect them from bullets it - probably contributed to the fact that the Ngindo, as well as other groups, after the uprising gave up their traditional religion and converted to Islam. Due to the neglect of agriculture during the uprising and the loss of population in the uprising and the subsequent famine feral their land and became part of the Selous Game Reserve.

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• Ethnic group in Tanzania
• Ethnicity in Africa