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The Ngulu people, also known as the Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, Wayomba, (Swahili collective: Wangulu) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group hailing from Southern Kilindi District, western Tanga Region of Tanzania and Mvomero District of Morogoro Region. The Ngulu population is around 390,000 people.
Brooklyn Museum 1989.51.2 Reliquary Guardian Figure Mbulu Ngulu. They are noted for their copper and brass reliquary guardian figures, which are part of a powerful religious and mystical order known as Bwete. However, it is unclear if these figures were made by the Kota people themselves, of other people living in the same area of Gabon. [1]
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village is an anthropological study of the ngulu cult among the Lungu people of Zambia authored by the anthropologist Roy Willis. It was first published in 1999 by Berg Publishers.
Ngulu is a Bantu language spoken in east-central Tanzania. In 1987 the Ngulu-speaking population was estimated to number 132,000 [1] . The Ngulu language is also called Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, or Wayomba.
Lastly the Ngulu people are native on the southwestern corner of Tanga Region's Kilindi District. [14] Other smaller ethnic groups in Tanga Region include Mbugu and Pare people . More recently in history, immigrants from other parts of the country and abroad have found economic opportunities in Tanga Region, including Indians and Arabs .
Ngulu may refer to: Ngulu language, a language of Tanzania; Ngulu people; Ngulu Atoll, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia; Ngulu (weapon), an execution sword of the Ngombe people; Termitomyces titanicus (chi-ngulu-ngulu), a large West African mushroom
Related ethnic groups Sotho-Tswana peoples , Tsonga people , Khoisan , San people and Ngoni people The Nguni people are an ethnolinguistic grouping of Bantu nomads who migrated from central Africa into Southern Africa, made up of ethnic groups formed during the late Iron Age , with offshoots in neighboring colonially-created countries in ...
The homestead group was so fundamental to Gogo society that people who had died peculiarly, (struck down by lightning or a contagious disease) were thrown into the bush or the trunk of a baobab tree, for such a person had no homestead and could become an "evil spirit" who associated with sorcerers or witches. [citation needed]