The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area from West Africa, to Central Africa, Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.

Mar 20, 2025 · Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.

Oct 29, 2024 · Bantu-speaking peoples occupy some of Africa’s most diverse landscapes, from the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro to the dense rainforests of the Congo Basin. While they’re known for advanced agricultural practices, their reach is …

The Bantu expansion [3] [4] [5] was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, [6] [7] which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa across Central Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa.

May 28, 2019 · The Bantu speaking peoples comprise of over 400 different ethnic groups found in many countries in Central, East and Southern Africa. They are united by the Bantu language family and share many customs.

Oct 29, 2020 · The Bantu people brought iron-smelting technology and subsistence farming to areas previously dominated by hunter-gatherers or early pastoralists. These innovations facilitated population growth and the division of labour, forming powerful Bantu-controlled African states in …

Mar 11, 2025 · The Bantu languages are spoken in a very large area, including most of Africa from southern Cameroon eastward to Kenya and southward to the southernmost tip of the continent. Twelve Bantu languages are spoken by more than five million people, including Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Xhosa, and Zulu.

Bantu is a general term for over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa, from Cameroon, Southern Africa, Central Africa, to Eastern Africa, united by a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in many cases common customs. How they spread throughout such a wide area has been the focus of much study and theorizing.

The Bantu live in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa. Linguistically, these languages belong to the Southern Bantoid branch of Benue Congo, one of the language …

Bantu is a general term for over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa, from Cameroon to South Africa, that have a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in many cases common customs. Early Iron Age findings in eastern and southern Africa.