Nguni people are a group of people who primarily speak Nguni languages and currently reside predominantly in Southern Africa.

The Nguni people are Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi people.

They predominantly live in South Africa. Swazi people live in both South Africa and Swaziland.

In South Africa, the historic Nguni kingdoms of the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi lie on the present provinces of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Mpumalanga.

The most notable of these kingdoms is the Zulu Kingdom  ruled by Shaka Zulu, a powerful warrior king whose conquest takes place in the early nineteenth century.