The Chagga people, who historically inhabited Mount Kilimanjaro’s southern and eastern slopes, are the third-largest tribe in Tanzania. The Chagga are made up of over 400 distinct clans that were commanded by mangis (chiefs), and although though the Mangi Mkuu (chief of all chiefs), who once oversaw daily affairs for the Chagga, no longer does so, he is still revered by everybody.
The people and inhabitants, native to the area around Mount Kilimanjaro and on the foot slopes of the Mountain are predominantly the Chagga people that speak the Chagga language or dialect. Tanzania is a Swahili-speaking country but the Chagga use this language as their mother tongue.
