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The Bantu expansion [3] [4] [5] was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, [6] [7] which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa. In the process, the Proto-Bantu-speaking settlers displaced, eliminated or absorbed pre-existing hunter-gatherer and pastoralist groups that they encountered.
Before the Bantu expansion had been definitively traced starting from their origins in the region between Cameroon and Nigeria, [18] two main scenarios of the Bantu expansion were hypothesized: an early expansion to Central Africa and a single origin of the dispersal radiating from there, [19] or an early separation into an eastward and a ...
The Bantu expansion is the major prehistoric migratory pattern that shaped the ethno-linguistic composition of Sub-Saharan Africa. [ 14 ] The Bantu , a branch of the Niger-Congo phylum, originated in West Africa around the Benue - Cross rivers area in southeastern Nigeria.
With more than 10 million Kinyarwanda speakers, [87] and around 20 million for Rwanda-Rundi as a whole, [87] it is one of the largest of the Bantu languages. [88] The language was likely to have been introduced to the area from Cameroon during the Bantu expansion, although the timescale and nature of this migration is not known conclusively. [89]
Northwest Bantu is more divergent internally than Central Bantu, and perhaps less conservative due to contact with non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages; Central Bantu is likely the innovative line cladistically. Northwest Bantu is not a coherent family, but even for Central Bantu the evidence is lexical, with little evidence that it is a ...
The Kgalagadi people were the first of the Bantu peoples to settle in present-day Botswana, arriving c. 200 CE. [11] The first Tswana people (singular Motswana, plural Batswana) are estimated to have arrived c. 400 CE. [11] These Bantu peoples brought iron and copper tools to the region and settled along permanent waterways. [10]
Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages; Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language; Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle; Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity, a youth activism group in the 1960s; Bantu (band), a band based in Lagos, Nigeria
The southern Twa today live in close economic symbiosis with the tribes among which they are scattered—Ngambwe, Havakona, Zimba and Himba. None of the individuals I have observed differs physically from the neighboring Bantu. [15] These peoples live in desert environments. Accounts are limited and tend to confuse the Twa with the San. [2]