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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]
Signs of this migration can be found in the genomes of contemporary peoples from all over East Africa. [1] [9] Moreover, analysis has also recognized that some of the Eurasian ancestry in Northeast Africa could possibly pre-date agriculture, from around ~12-23 ka. [10] Next to Eastern Africa, significant Eurasian ancestry is found in Northern ...
These Bantu migrants were held to have been speakers of Sabaki Bantu languages. [3] Other Bantu ethnic groups, smaller in number, are also suggested to have been part of the migration. [ 4 ] From Shungwaya, the Mount Kenya Bantu ( Kamba , Kikuyu , Meru , Embu , and Mbeere ) are then proposed to have broke away and migrated from there some time ...
As the largest migration since the Out of Africa migration, migration from Sub-Saharan Africa toward the North Africa occurred, by West Africans, Central Africans, and East Africans, resulting in migrations into Europe and Asia; consequently, Sub-Saharan African mitochondrial DNA was introduced into Europe and Asia. [5]
The Bantu imported agriculture and iron-working techniques from West Africa into the area, as well as establishing the Bantu language family as the primary set of tongues for the Congolese. Subsequent migrations from the Darfur and Kurdufan regions of Sudan into the north of Congo, as well as East Africans migrating into the eastern Congo ...
The Bantu expansion has spread the Bantu languages to Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, partly replacing the indigenous populations of these regions, including the African Pygmies, Hadza people and San people. Beginning about 3,000 years ago, it reached South Africa about 1,700 years ago.
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
The migration of the Romani people through the Middle East to Europe Stages of the German eastern expansion, 700–1400. Massive migrations of Germans took place into East Central and Eastern Europe, reaching its peak in the 12th to 14th centuries.