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  2. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bantu expansion - Wikipedia

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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. [22] He suggests that Igbo people and Yoruba people may have admixture from back-migrated Bantu peoples. [22]

  4. List of ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria, [15] Niger, [16] Chad, [17] Cameroon [18] Nilo-Saharan, Saharan: 10 [year needed] Kongo: Central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Republic of the Congo: Niger–Congo, Bantu: 10 [year needed] Luba: Central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Niger–Congo, Bantu: 15 [year needed] Mongo: Central Africa: Democratic ...

  5. Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon) - Wikipedia

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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

  6. History of Cameroon - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Duala people - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Bassa people (Cameroon) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Beti-Pahuin peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Beti-Pahuin are a Bantu ethnic group located in Center region of Cameroon. Though they separate themselves into several individual clans , they all share a common origin, history and culture. Estimated to be well over 8 million individuals in the early 21st century, they form the largest ethnic group in central Cameroon and its capital city ...