Ngoni people

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, in east-central Africa. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The degree of relationship between the Ngoni of Malawi and Zambia and the Ngoni of Tanzania and Mozambique is unclear, with Ethnologue asserting that the groups are not related. In the early nineteenth century, a period of political instability in southern Africa known as the mfecane saw the rise of the Zulu nation and the creation of a number of other groups. The creation and destruction of political allegiances led to a number of northward migrations of Nguni people from the kwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa.