The map below shows 50 of the most commonly spoken, ranging from Bantu to Songha, according to Marc Felix and Charles Meurs' 2001 book Peoples' Atlas of Africa: African countries are also quite ...

In Bantu populations in east and west Africa, the biggest signal of evolutionary selection was in a cluster of genes that help the immune system identify pathogens (called the HLA complex).

The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally ...

The arts of central Africa are on display at the Quai Branly museum in Paris with an exhibition called Fleuve Congo (Congo River). It covers the immense Bantu-speaking region of central Africa ...