Rangi people

A Rangi woman baking chapati for her tea house in central Tanzania

The Rangi are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania. In 1999 the Rangi population was estimated to number 350,000 .

The Rangi call their language Kilaangi, though it is more commonly known as Rangi or Kirangi.

References

• Fosbrooke, H.A. 1958 “Blessing the Year: a Wasi/Rangi Ceremony”, Tanganyika Notes and Records 50, 21-2
• Fosbrooke, H.A. 1958 “A Rangi Circumcision Ceremony: Blessing a New Grove”, Tanganyika Notes and Records 50, 30-36
• Gray, R.F. 1953 “Notes on Irangi Houses”, Tanganyika Notes and Records 35, 45-52
• Kesby, J. 1981 “The Rangi of Tanzania: An introduction to their culture”, HRAF: Yale
• Kesby, J. 1982 “Progress and the past among the Rangi of Tanzania”, HRAF: Yale
• Kesby, J. 1986 “Rangi natural history: The taxonomic procedures of an African people”, HRAF: Yale
• Maingu, Yovin & Brunhilde Bossow, 2006 "Mazingira ya Warangi na Wajerumani wa Kale", Published by Heimat- und Kulturverein Gellersen (Society for History and Culture of the Gellersen villages, Germany)
• Masare, A.J. 1970 “Utani Relationships: The Rangi”, unpublished manuscript, Dar es Salaam
• Mung’ong’o, Claude G. 1995 “Social Processes and Ecology in the Kondoa Irangi Hills, Central Tanzania”, Stockholm University, Dept. of Human Geography, Meddlanden Series B 93
• Östberg, W. 1979 “The Kondoa Transformation”, research report no. 76, SIAS: UppsalaUppsala
• It was made clear that all Rangi people came from Bahi district in the middle of 18890