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The Bantu migrations, and centuries later the Indian Ocean slave trade, brought Bantu influence to Madagascar, [37] the Malagasy people showing Bantu admixture, and their Malagasy language Bantu loans. [38] Toward the 18th and 19th centuries, the flow of Zanj slaves from Southeast Africa increased with the rise of the Sultanate of Zanzibar ...
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.
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.
The Embu or Aembu (sometimes called Waembu) are a Bantu people indigenous to Embu county. The region is situated on the southern slopes of the former Eastern province. The Embu belong to the northeastern Bantu branch and speak the Embu language known as Kiembu as a mother tongue. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family.
The Luba people or Baluba are a Bantu ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the south-central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] The majority of them live in this country, residing mainly in Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kasaï-Central, Lomami and Maniema. The Baluba consist of many sub-groups or clans.
By contrast, Bantu populations to the north of the Tutsi-Hima in the mount Kenya area such as the Agikuyu were until modern times essentially without a king (instead having a stateless age set system which they adopted from Cushitic peoples) while there were a number of Bantu kingdoms to the south of the Tutsi-Hima in Tanzania, all of which ...
The Makua people, also known as Makhuwa or Wamakua, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northern Mozambique and the southern border provinces of Tanzania such as the Mtwara Region. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are the largest ethnic group in Mozambique, and primarily concentrated in a large region to the north of the Zambezi River .
Pages in category "Bantu people" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bukusu; G. Gungu people; K.