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Unreached People: Zigua

The Zigua are found in a small coastal region in northeastern Tanzania, near to to Dar-es-Salaam. Numbering around 631,000 they are part of the Bantu linguistic group with their own language called Zigula. Like many Bantu people the Zigua can trace their history back thousands of years, with their history recounting the story of their flight east to the coast of Tanzania as they avoided the slave trade. Today many Zigua are involved in the farming and harvesting of sisal, which is cultivated for its fibre used in ropes and mats.

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Speak Zigula

There are many dialects of Zigula, and there is no standard way of writing it down, but it is spoken by about 380,000 people.

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Know your knots!

To help look after our oceans better, people are starting to use sisal to make ropes again. Why not download this sheet showing you how to tie different knots?

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