Digo
The Digo are an ethnic and linguistic population group native to the Indian Ocean , Kwale County in southern Kenya, and Tanga in northern Tanzania. In 1994 the population was estimated at 305,000, with 217,000 ethnic Digo in Kenya and an estimate from 1987 at 88,000 in Tanzania .
The Digo are part of the Mijikenda group, which is made up of nine smaller groups or tribes . Their language is called Chidigo by them and belongs to the group of Bantu languages . More than 90 percent of the Digo are Muslims .
A well-known entertainment dance that is performed at family celebrations and national holidays is called Sengenya . To the accompanying ensemble six drums, the bamboo flute include chivoti , the conical oboe nzumari and giving as a clock percussion instruments of the sheet metal plate patsu and the vessel rassel nzuga .