Bantu-speaking people of eastern Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Malawi. They practice shifting (slash-and-burn) agriculture and they hunt and fish. Slavery was once universal among the Chewa. Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal and polygyny is general. Chewa settlements are governed by a hereditary headman and a council of elders
{i} member of a Negro people who speak Bantu and live in Malawi and Zambia and northern Zimbabwe
{i} Bantu language of Niger-Congo languages (spoken in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique)