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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 BCE and 1200 BCE. [29] Irish (2016) also views Igbo people and Yoruba people as being possibly back-migrated Bantu ...
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. [22] He suggests that Igbo people and Yoruba people may have admixture from back-migrated Bantu peoples. [22]
Douglas Harper states that the term means "mountains" in a Bantu language, which the Congo river flows down from. [14] The Kongo people have been referred to by various names in the colonial French, Belgian and Portuguese literature, names such as Esikongo (singular Mwisikongo), Mucicongo, Mesikongo, Madcongo and Moxicongo. [11]
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
In Cameroon, Bantu people largely displaced Central African Pygmies such as the Baka, who were hunter-gatherers and who now survive in much smaller numbers in the heavily forested southeast. Despite Cameroon being the original homeland of the Bantu people, the great medieval Bantu-speaking kingdoms arose elsewhere, such as what is now Kenya ...
The Bantu expansion is hypothesized to have originated in a homeland of Bantu-speaking peoples located around western Cameroon, a part of which Shum Laka is viewed as being of importance in the early period of this expansion. [29] By 3000 BP, the Bantu expansion is hypothesized to have already begun. [29]
The Duala (or Sawa) are a Bantu ethnic group of Cameroon. They primarily inhabit the littoral and southwest region of Cameroon and form a portion of the Sawabantu or "coastal people" of Cameroon. The Dualas readily welcomed German and French colonial policies.
It is spoken by around 800,000 people around the towns of Édéa, Éséka and Douala. It has phonetic and grammatical characteristics common to many Bantu languages, such as noun classes, the implosive “b” and a tone system: high tone, low tone, low-high tone, high-low tone, medium tone. The language is transcribed using an adapted Latin ...