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Nyaturu

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Nyaturu 

(Wanyaturu; Arimi, Lima, Turn), a people living south of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Their population, including the related Iramba, Irangi, and Mbugwe (Wambugwe) peoples, is approximately 650,000 (1967, estimate). The Nyaturu language belongs to the eastern Bantu language group. Approximately 75 percent of the Nyaturu profess Islam; some are Christians, and others retain the ancient traditional beliefs. Their main occupations are livestock raising and farming. There is a great deal of seasonal work on plantations and at enterprises of the mining industry.



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2) A Nyaturu, representative of a tribe very rarely seen at Amani, when he arrived as servant of a visiting European, sought out the only man with whom he could claim utani, a Nyiramba, and received hospitality from him .
 
 
 
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