Zulu people
In 1979, researchers R. Wade Churchman and John Walsh wrote a book about the Zulu called Zulu: People and Culture. They also published an article called The Zulus and the Origins of the Xhosa Wars. The authors used the term Zulu for the people in order to differentiate them from the South African tribe of the same name. They believed that some people in the area were not Zulu, and thought that the Xhosa had been a military elite of the Zulu people.
Swahili people
In the 19th century, European colonizers used the term Swahili to refer to the ethnic groups of the east coast of Africa, including what is now Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, many groups already considered themselves Swahili. The Swahili were the descendants of the mixed marriage of Arab and black African men with indigenous African women in the 14th to 16th century, when Mzungu arrived in the Indian Ocean coast.
Bantu people
In the 19th century, colonialists used the term Bantu to refer to the ethnic groups of the central, eastern and southern regions of Africa that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi. However, many groups already considered themselves Bantu. Bantu was the name of an earlier group of speakers, part of the Niger–Congo family, who entered the Western Sudan from the north as far back as the 4th millennium BC.
Kikuyu people
The Kikuyu are a tribe of Kenya. They are also called the Gikuyu or Gikuyu people, after their place of origin, the Central province in Kenya.
Kikuyu means Kikeyuan in Gikuyu, which literally means "Stuff of the Ugunsi", which means the "White people". This name for Kikuyu people was given by early Christian missionaries, because Kikuyu people are among the few tribes in Kenya and Uganda that practice baptism.
The Kikuyu speak the Gikuyu language, which is also called Gichugu or Kikuyu.
A sign in Gichugu, which means "People of Gikuyu", is the site of a stone memorial built in 1922 by Martin N'Goli.
East African Indian be359ba680
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