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The linguistic core of the Bantu languages, which comprise a branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family, was located in the southern regions of Cameroon. [8] Genetic evidence also indicates that there was a large human migration from central Africa, with varying levels of admixture with local population. [4] [9]
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 ...
It is well documented in the Apartheid legislation, that the white minority, government regime – recreated and used the "traditional" Chiefdom-ships system to be the National Party's power reach, and even increased the Chiefdom-ships' powers over the Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa for the Apartheid government's interests.
Based on the dominating languages and customs (e.g. initiation, circumcision); the area is predominantly of Bantu ancestry. Genetic studies confirm this Bantu ancestry, but show notable differences to the adjacent Mijikenda bantu-speaking people reflecting their distinct cultural histories. [4] Chagga man at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland; Afrikaans: Bantoestan) was a territory that the National Party administration of the Union of South Africa (1910–1961) and later the Republic of South Africa (1961–1994) set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of ...
The Bantu people originally lived in West and Central Africa around what is today Cameroon and Nigeria. [19] Approximately 5000 years ago, they began a millennia-long expansion into much of the continent. This event has been called the Bantu expansion; [20] it was one of the largest human migrations in history. The Bantu are believed to have ...
The Shona people, like many other Bantu-speaking groups in southern and central Africa, do not exhibit evidence of Eurasian DNA. Genetic analyses of ancient remains from regions such as Zimbabwe have not identified archaic Eurasian DNA markers. These findings challenge earlier theories that underestimated the capabilities of African communities.
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 ...