The Kwaya are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group based in the Mara Region of northern Tanzania, on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria. In 1987 the Kwaya population was estimated to number 102,000.^[1] They are found at Musoma district.as it's their original area of residence as the word musoma itself came from the word "Omusoma" which is the kwaya word meaning a portion of land projecting into the lake .and the name of their tribe came from a bird known as eagle