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  2. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area from West Africa, to Central Africa, Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa. Bantu people also inhabit southern areas of Northeast ...

  3. Systems of social stratification - Wikipedia

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    The system of patrilineal primogeniture traditionally prevalent among most southern Bantu tribes is explained imarriage, African customary law distinguishes between "family rank" and "house rank". ... Family rank refers to the status of family members within the family group. In customary law, males held a higher rank than their female ...

  4. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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  5. Matrilineal belt - Wikipedia

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    The belt is linked to horticultural household economics, and Bantu groups that have embraced pastoralism have tended to lose matrilinearity. [ 1 ] Hypotheses linking the matrilineal belt to a supposed matrilineal Bantu expansion have been rejected as lacking evidence.

  6. Chewa people - Wikipedia

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    The Chewa (or AChewa) are a Bantu ethnic group found in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and few in Mozambique. The Chewa are closely related to people in surrounding regions such as the Tumbuka, Shona and Nsenga. They are historically also related to the Bemba, with whom they share a similar origin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  7. Bantu peoples of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The creation of false homelands or Bantustans (based on dividing South African Bantu language speaking peoples by ethnicity) was a central element of this strategy, the Bantustans were eventually made nominally independent, in order to limit South African Bantu language speaking peoples citizenship to those Bantustans.

  8. Fang people - Wikipedia

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    The Fang people, also known as Fãn or Pahouin, are a Bantu ethnic group found in Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, and southern Cameroon. [2] [1] Representing about 85% of the total population of Equatorial Guinea, concentrated in the Río Muni region, the Fang people are its largest ethnic group. [3]

  9. Category:Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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    For convenience, all Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa, Banyarwanda and Beti-Pahuin peoples should be included in this category. This includes all ethnic groups that can also be found in the subcategories.