Zaramo (people)
The Zaramo (also Saramo or in their own plural name Wasaramo ) are an ethnic group between Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo in the Pwani region in Tanzania , to which an estimated 656,730 people belonged in 2000.
Their traditional language is the Bantu language of the same name, Zaramo , which, however , has lost its importance compared to Swahili . The predominant religion is Islam, although there are also Christians and followers of the traditional religion with a deity Mulungu .
The area of the Zaramo, mostly located in today's Kisarawe and Bagamoyo districts of the Pwani region, is also called Usaramo . Today many Zaramo also live in nearby Dar es Salaam.
The Zaramo were affected by the East African slave trade ; Descendants of Zaramo enslaved in the 19th century now live as Somali Bantu in southern Somalia .
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- Ethnologue.com on the Zaramo language
- University of Iowa: African Art: Zaramo profile ( January 11, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )