Bantu peoples

Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (light brown) vs. other Niger-Congo languages and peoples (medium brown).

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.

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  Bantu migration

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  Early Iron Age findings in eastern and southern Africa.

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Bantu Peoples Media

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  Map of the major Bantu languages shown within the Niger–Congo language family, with non-Bantu languages in greyscale.

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  Reconstructing the dispersal of Bantu-speaking populations.

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  The Bantu Kingdom of Kongo, c. 1630

Bibliography

• J. Desmond Clark, The Prehistory of Africa, Thames and Hudson, 1970
• April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon, Understanding Contemporary Africa, Lynne Riener, London, 1996
• Kevin Shillington, History of Africa, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995 (1989)