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The Baka people, known in the Congo as Bayaka (Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya), [1] are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Republic of the Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the Twa, but the two peoples are not closely related.
From Nigeria and Cameroon, agricultural Proto-Bantu peoples began to migrate, and amid migration, diverged into East Bantu peoples (e.g., Democratic Republic of Congo) and West Bantu peoples (e.g., Congo, Gabon) between 2500 BCE and 1200 BCE. [29] Irish (2016) also views Igbo people and Yoruba people as being possibly back-migrated Bantu ...
The Beti-Pahuin are made up of over 20 individual clans. Altogether, they inhabit a territory of forests and rolling hills that stretches from the Sanaga River in the north to Equatorial Guinea and the northern halves of Gabon to Congo to the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the west to the Dja River in the east.
From Nigeria and Cameroon, agricultural Proto-Bantu peoples began to migrate, and amid migration, diverged into East Bantu peoples (e.g., Democratic Republic of Congo) and West Bantu peoples (e.g., Congo, Gabon) between 2500 BC and 1200 BC. [23] He suggests that Igbo people and Yoruba people may have admixture from back-migrated Bantu peoples. [23]
The Gbaya, also Gbeya or Baya, are a people of the western region of the Central African Republic, east-central Cameroon, the north of the Republic of Congo, and the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Republic of South Sudan [4] In the first half of the 20th century, the Gbaya were involved in several revolt attempts against German and then French colonial rule.
The Banda people are an ethnic group of the Central African Republic. They are likewise found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Cameroon , and South Sudan . [ 1 ] They were severely affected by slave raids of the 19th century and slave trading out of Africa.
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The Beti people are Bantu people who once lived in northern parts of Central Africa, with a complex, undocumented and debated prehistory. [6] They likely moved into equatorial Africa in the seventh or eighth century, then further southwest in central Cameroon between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, likely after waves of wars and slave raids from the Fulani people.