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AFRICAN HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION

The Bantu Africa

Map of Africa (physical)

Bantu Africa

  • Bantu, a language/linguistic group
  • Stem word: Ntu = person
  • Prefix: Ba = plural
  • Closely related languages (about 450)
  • Close to 100 million people across southern half of Africa

Origin and early history

  • Linguistic evidence show that the root Bantu language emerged by c.2000 BC.
  • Cross River region around Nigeria/Cameroon border
  • By 1000 B.C., in a series of migrations, expanded east into Lake Victoria (expansion)
  • then southwest and south

Map of Bantu expansion

Origin and early history …

  • Over the next 1500 they scattered throughout central and southern Africa
  • Mingled and mixed with earlier settlers
  • Earlier settlers practiced cereal farming
  • Introduced a new political ideology (praise-singing of “big men”)
  • Ideology became the basis for kingship
  • Introduced root crop agriculture
  • Iron working technology introduced into region by 1st millennium from the north

Origin and early history …

  • All of these processes and elements gave rise to states
  • Lacustrine region
  • Swahili and coastal city states
  • Zambezian states

African Kingdoms and Empires

Swahili city states