1. Tumbuka - Noun
2. Tumbuka - Proper noun
Tumbuka (plural Tumbukas or Tumbuka)
English Wikipedia has an article on:TumbukaWikipedia
A member of a Bantu-speaking African people inhabiting Eastern Zambia and Northern Malawi.
Tumbuka
The language of these people.
A good number of the Tumbuka were the slaves of the Ngoni whom they called Zowa. Source: Internet
The Ngoni had already killed one of the Chikulamayembes- (Mkwayira the chief of the Tumbuka) and Mjuma along Runyina river. Source: Internet
These were the two places where the Tonga in 1881 and the Tumbuka in 1894 embraced Christianity out of fear of the powerful Ngoni impis which was terrorizing them. Source: Internet
Bishop Robert Laws had to leave Mangochi and go further north in Tonga and Tumbuka territories. Source: Internet
The Tumbuka and the Tonga were being terrirosed by the Ngoni impis of chief M'Mbelwa of Mzimba (a Zulu word for the body). Source: Internet
Later on the missionaries went to the Tumbuka who were also being enslaved by the powerful Ngonis. Source: Internet