The Zanaki were one of the smallest of the 120 tribes in the British colony and were then sub-divided among eight chiefdoms; they would only be united under the kingship of Chief Wanzagi Nyerere, Burito's half-brother, in the 1960s
Azanaki anali amodzi mwa mafuko ang'onoang'ono mwa mafuko zana limodzi ndi makumi awiir mu koloni la Britain ndipo kenaka anagawikana pakati pa mafumu asanu ndi atatu; akanakhala ogwirizana pansi pa ufumu wa Mfumu Wanzagi Nyerere, mchimwene wake wa Burito, ,zala za mma 1960