Rukwa

Rukwa denotes the Rukwa group of Bantu languages spoken around Lake Rukwa and the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in southwestern Tanzania, comprising Fipa, Pimbwe, Rungwa, Safwa, Nyakyusa, Nyiha and Mambwe-Lungu among others. The Fipa of the Ufipa plateau built centralised chiefdoms ruled by dynasties of iron-smiths, who traded their iron for woven cloth.