Ngalawa

{{Short description|Traditional Swahili outrigger canoe}}

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The ngalawa or ungalawa is a traditional, double-outrigger canoe of the Swahili people living in Zanzibar and the Tanzanian coast.{{cite web|url=http://smalltrimarans.com/blog/jim-browns-coming-seaclipper-20-trimaran-the-janganda/|title=Jim Brown's Coming Seaclipper 20 trimaran (the "Janganda")|publisher=Small Trimarans|author=Small Tri Guy}} It is usually 5–6 m long and has two outriggers, a centrally-placed mast (often inclining slightly towards the prow) and a single triangular sail. It is used for short-distance transport of goods or people, as well as a coastal fishing boat. It can be classified as a variation of another common type of Swahili canoe known as {{ill|mtumbwi|uk|мтумбві}}.

The name and the outrigger technology was adapted from the outrigger lakana of the Austronesian Malagasy people of Madagascar.{{cite book|author=Claude Allibert|editor =Tim Curtis|title =Islands as Crossroads: Sustaining Cultural Diversity in Small Island Developing States|chapter =Austronesian migration and the establishment of the Malagasy civilization: contrasted readings in linguistics, archaeology, genetics and cultural anthropology|publisher =UNESCO|year =2011|page=45|isbn =9789231041815}}