Manganja

Manganja (Maganja), a large Bantu nation, whose territory lies mainly between the Zambesi and the Shire emissary of Lake Nyassa. When first visited by Livingstone they formed numerous petty states, whose chiefs recognised a paramount lord, Rondo or Rundo, to whom they paid a small yearly tribute, and who also claimed one of the tusks of all elephants killed in their territory. But since the arrival of the Makololos these relations have been altered, and at present the Manganjas acknowledge the British authorities in Nyassaland. [Makololo.] The Manganjas are an industrious people, good agriculturists, cotton-weavers, and yvorkers in iron. Many attend the Scotch mission stations in the Shire district, and their Bantu language (Chi-Nganja) has been reduced to written form by the missionaries.