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  2. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Somali Bantus - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, 12,000 Bantu people were displaced into Kenya, and nearly 3,300 were estimated to have returned to Tanzania. [8] In 2002, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) moved a large number of Bantu refugees 1500 km to Kakuma in northwest Kenya because it was safer to process them for resettlement farther away from the Somali border.

  5. Baganda - Wikipedia

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    The Baganda [3] (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 16.5 percent of the population at the time of the 2014 ...

  6. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    The language of the Kongo people is called Kikongo (Guthrie: Bantu Zone H.10). It is a macrolanguage and consists of Beembe , Doondo, Koongo, Laari, Kongo-San-Salvador, Kunyi, Vili and Yombe sub-languages.

  7. Venda people - Wikipedia

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    The Venda of today are Vhangona, Takalani (Ungani), Masingo and others. Vhangona are the original inhabitants of Venda, they are also referred as Vhongwani wapo; while Masingo and others are originally from central Africa and the East African Rift, migrating across the Limpopo river during the Bantu expansion, Venda people originated from central and east Africa, just like the other South ...

  8. Nyanga people - Wikipedia

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    The Nyanga (also Banianga, Banyanga, Kinyanga, Nianga or Nyangas) are a Bantu people in the African Great Lakes region. Today they live predominantly in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the frontier with Rwanda and Uganda. [1] They speak the Nyanga language, also called Kinyanga, which is one of the Bantu languages.

  9. Nguni people - Wikipedia

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    Swazi (or Swati) people live in both South Africa and Eswatini, while Ndebele people live in both South Africa and Zimbabwe. The Xhosa were pastoralist from late iron age Bantu and proto-Bantu agro-pastoralists and established sub-federations under AmaXhosa kingdom, which are (AbaThembu, AmaMpondo, and AmaMpondomise) in the 16th century. The ...