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    and others were defining "Black" to mean all non-European South Africans (Bantus, Khoisan, Coloureds and Indians). In modern South Africa, the word's connection...
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  • The Somali Bantus (also known as Jareerweyne or Gosha) are a Bantu ethnic minority group in Somalia who primarily reside in the southern part of the country...
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  • Look up Bantu or bantu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Bantu. Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute...
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    Central African Pygmies and Bantus branched out from a common ancestral population c. 70,000 years ago. Many Batwa groups speak Bantu languages; however, a...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the...
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  • the way of firearms, the Bantus were particularly vulnerable to violence and looting by militiamen. Tens of thousands of Bantus fled to refugee camps in...
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    Bantu religion is a system of various spiritual beliefs and practices that relate to the Bantu people of Central, East, and Southern Africa. Although Bantu...
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    accepts Somali Bantus". BBC News. 25 June 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2011. Chanoff, Sasha (November 2002). "After Three Years: Somali Bantus Prepare to Come...
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  • Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African...
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    Bantu speaking people are the majority ethno-racial group in South Africa. They are descendants of Southern Bantu-speaking peoples who settled in South...
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  • stereotypical black features (e.g., dark skin, wide nose, and big lips). From a Bantu verb tshikabo, meaning "they bow the head docilely," indicating meek or...
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  • Bantu music is the music produced by Bantu peoples in Africa. It englobes a wide variety of music that shares a common heritage as the Bantu peoples themselves...
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    identified an ancestral and autochthonous lineage of mtDNA shared by Pygmies and Bantus, suggesting that both populations were originally one, and that they started...
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  • are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic...
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    traditions, including Bantu, Arab, Portuguese, Indian, British and even Chinese cuisine. The first inhabitants of Zanzibar were Bantus coming from mainland...
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    Originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century. Following European colonisers in the...
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    Niari Plateaux Pointe-Noire Pool Sangha Some Pygmies belong from birth to Bantus in a relationship some refer to as slavery. The Congolese Human Rights Observatory...
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  • Pretoria Callies Football Club, also known as Bantu Callies or Pretoria Bantu Callies, is a South African professional soccer club based in Pretoria,...
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  • Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 14 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and social activist who is...
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    Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2,000 years ago. Beginning in the 11th century the Shona...
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    of the population. Bantus are the single largest population division in Kenya. Most Bantu are farmers. Some of the prominent Bantu groups in Kenya include...
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    of interaction between Austronesians originally from southern Borneo and Bantus from Southeast Africa. Traditionally, the population have been divided into...
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    emerged in North, East and West Africa, while from 3000 BCE to 1000 CE the Bantu expansion swept from modern-day Cameroon through Central, East, and Southern...
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  • Swahili is a Bantu language which is native to or mainly spoken in the East African region. It has a grammatical structure that is typical for Bantu languages...
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  • The Semi-Bantu or Semibantu are specific inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa, West, Northwest, and Southwest regions)...
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    South Africa (category Articles with text in Bantu languages)
    000 years ago. The first known people were the indigenous Khoisan, and Bantu-speaking peoples from West and Central Africa later migrated to the region...
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  • As of 2013, there were around 10,000 Somalis in Lewiston and Portland. In 2022 the number shrunk to around 6,000. In the 1990s, thousands of Somali immigrants...
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  • Bantu Mzwakali (born 9 November 1993) is a South African football midfielder who plays as midfielder for Saudi Arabian club Al-Shaeib. Mzwakali started...
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    Swahili language (category Northeast Coast Bantu languages)
    Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya...
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  • Hutu (category Bantu peoples)
    The Hutu (/ˈhuːtuː/), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda...
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