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Nyanja people
The Nyanja are a Bantu-speaking people living around Lake Malawi and the Shire valley in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, closely related to the Chewa. Their language, Chinyanja or Chichewa, is widely spoken across the region. In the nineteenth century many Nyanja villages came under the rule of Ngoni and Yao chiefs, and later of British and Portuguese colonial governments.
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