TheKwaya are aBantu ethnolinguistic group based in theMara Region of northernTanzania, on the southeastern shore ofLake 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