Ethnic group in the Foothill of Mount Kilimanjaro

A traditional Chagga Hut in Nothern Tanzania.

It is the third Largest in Tanzania. The Chagga descended from various Bantu groups who migrated from elsewhere in Africa to the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, a migration that began around the start of the eleventh century.

 While the Chagga are Bantu-speakers, their language has a number of dialects related to Kamba, which is spoken in northeast Kenya, and to other languages spoken in the east, such as Dabida and Pokomo.