I have Bantu ancestry. 21% Nigerian. My family believed land is wealth.

Bantu does not just mean people. That's the classic and simple definition of the word. You have to be Bantu to understand that it's not just a question of vocabulary. Spiritually speaking, in Kikamba one of the Bantu languages ​​of the Congo, BANTU = BA (people) + NTU (All Powerful) therefore which means PEOPLE OF THE ALMIGHTY In Shona one bantu language also: BANTU = BA or ABA (Dad or God) and NTU (All Powerful or first choice) therefore means FIRST CHOICE OF DAD OR GOD ALL POWERFUL. So when we identify ourselves as Bantu it does not mean that we say that we are human but we call ourselves Bantu because we are special, we are the first choice of God, we are that is to say we are the people of the Almighty.

@stephentaylor2119

2 ай бұрын

Ntu root meaning is a Thing, not all-powerful, that's Afro eccentric fantasy. In Swahili, the root is Tu in class 1/2 it becomes Mtu/Watu, person/People. Put that root in class 7/8 We get Kitu/Vitu Thing/ Things, notan all powerful thing. The term for God in most Bantu languages is Mungu, Mlungu Nkulungu, based around the root Ungu.

Thank you Doctor for your video and a brief history about Bantu/Vanhu/Abantu. Here is what some southern African people understand about the Bantu migration history. Here is the brief outline. Our ancestors where once along the Nile valley, and from Kush whose people lived in harmony along River Nile. People moved from Nile Valley to Benuwe Cross in Zaire/Congo/DRC then moved and settled in Tanganyika/Tanzania/Guruuswa. The natural resources where now in short supply because of ever growing population and also because of witch craft practices among other people. Then the Bantu Migration was bone. Let me focus on the people who migrated to southern Africa. All people of Southern Africa including Ruwanda, Kenya, Malawi,Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana,Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa are all Bantu/Vanhu speaking people. When these people are speaking you can pick a lot of similarities in their words and sentences. Like in west Africa when powerful kings rose almost the same time powerful kings rose in southern Africa the likes of Chaka the Zulu in South Africa kwaZulu Natal and Changamiredombo and Rozvi State in Dzimbabwe/Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe king Munhumutapa/Monomutapa whose kingdom stretched from Ethiopia to trans- Limpopo South Africa The proof of their thriving kingdom is the Great Zimbabwe Ruins and several citings ruins around Zimbabwean.Queen Shiba who visited King Solomon of the Bible visited Great Zimbabwe. These kings had been trading with the Chinese, and People from Middle East. It is said Arabs attempted to colonize but faced deadly resistance. Southern African countries did not experience slave trade like most west African countries did. Some west African kings were involved in slave trading their own people! Some African kings were evil. Chaka the Zulu when his mother Nanti died she was barried with ten live virgins as coffin to the King mother!!

@mandandi

8 ай бұрын

Angola didnt experience slavery on the coastal areas?

Grand Rising Dr BO,thank u always for knowledge about our Mothers land Africa.have a peaceful & blessed day.💙💯's

When your music starts before lecture, l know that l am about to be put back it time. In the time of my ancestry and what a joy to be on a lecture most of us never had and moreover told by one of my kind. Your work is amazing and it should be visited by every African. Africa need many of your kind

BANTU PEOPLES NEVER COME FROM NIGERIA; THERE ARE NO BANTU PEOPLES NIGERIA. ALL WHITE SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THE BANTU PEOPLES COME FROM SUD-WEST CAMEROON; BUT I' M CAMEROONIAN BANTU, AND I SAY THIS IS A BIG LIE; THE BANTU PEOPLE COME FROM EAST AFRICA. AND BANTU PEOPLES WHO LIVES IN CAMEROON COME OF A MIGRATION FROM EAST AFRICA TO CENTRAL AFRICA via CONGO AREA. CAMEROONIAN BANTU HAVE COMMON WORDS WITH CONGOLESE BANTU (BANGALA, BAKONGO, NGOMBE, MONGO, BALUBA, etc) more than 95%.

@rhbm8951

Жыл бұрын

It's your version is very true

@azaniabantu

6 ай бұрын

True That

@sharonwashington1300

3 ай бұрын

The Zulu of South Africa migrated from Nigeria long ago says the brother of the Unpopular Opinion youtube channel. I'm part Zulu. Also, Kikiyu migrated from Nigeria to Kenya. I was told this info by a Kikiyu sister herself.

@ebenezermandjamba7625

3 ай бұрын

@@sharonwashington1300 No. Nigeria isn't a bantu country. No-one in Nigeria has bantu gena. Zulu people are one of Nguni Peoples. Zulu people are Bantu and Bantuphone. Nothing to do with Nigeria

@ebenezermandjamba7625

3 ай бұрын

@@sharonwashington1300 Kikuyu are bantu peoples. No Bantu people comes from Nigeria. How could kikuyu migrate from Nigeria to Kenya without entring in Cameroon, CAR and Sudan ?

Very informative. Thank you

If I understand you correctly, your premise is that the Bantu peoples moved around in accordance with the environmental conditions and influence of conquerors from the north. Because of their respect for nature, rather than change the lands, they migrated to locations that were more livable when forces dictated. They operated from a different mindset than more sedentary societies, until some of those other civilizations began to exert their power over them (physically, spiritually and even economically). I think it's important to recognize that Asians, specifically Chinese, have been trading with SubSaharan Africans since the 7th century, but they did not try to conquer or enslave them. I would be interested in knowing your thoughts about that.

@afroartist1086

2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty interesting, I always wanted to know more about the Bantu's past but finding unbiased or unaltered historical information is hard. Do you have any books to suggest?

@alvanalvino

2 жыл бұрын

Ancient Africans were stronger and the Chinese in 1421 when their mighty imperial fleet sailed out into the waters of the planet following trails Africans have covered for thousands of years on their own without any African maps of cause the Chinese choose similar systems as they are practicing today. Their priority was trade and the Africa of those timelines were in a golden age. More developed than the Africa of today minus the western buildings we now build of cause. The Chinese exchanged gifts with Africans and had African am ambassadors at the opening of the forbidden city when not a single country or kingdom in Europe was considered worthy or developed enough to be invited or had anything of value including knowledge to trade off with China. Africa was a huge place and the weather alone would have wiped out the Chinese military. The Romans and Persians had failed on previous centuries going back to over 2000 years ago. The Chinese were not complete ignorant like the Europeans were. They weren’t also an evil race determined to enslave and then kill off entire populations and then seize their economies and civilisation intact then destroy it to dig themselves out of abject multigenerational poverty like the Europeans. The Chinese were very advanced like the Africans and they were rich, they needed continuous trade while the Europeans take what they can as fast as possible including the art works, historical and museum artefacts of African history for all time wherever they might be found going back over 25,000 years to erase Africans culturally, spiritually and historically. They did this with organised intentional military precision until the natives were almost destroyed in every way possible, physically, spiritually, historically, scientifically, technologically, the complete destruction and theft of the medical technology of Africans who were performing brain surgery and controlling epidemics and diseases for thousands of years continually when Europeans had zero knowledge of it. The small pox had decimated half of their population when they discovered Africa aa a military weak and ridiculously rich continent flowing with excessive gold and diamonds the stuffs of the white man’s wildest dreams and fantasies. They stuffs he is prepared to kill babies, serially rape women in public in broad day lights, burn down whole walled cities with the locals still trapped in them and then hang the nobility before wiping out eternal royal bloodlines for. The sneaked on on American Indians to wipe them out too and steal their lands for that is who they were 100%, a barbaric, brutal race that takes everything away from anyone they encountered who was richer than them. It was this fear that forced the Chinese to snub Europeans and shit down their country for centuries after destroying their entire imperial fleets (3 fleets) to protect them from the Europeans and when they made first contact with the Chinese they humiliated them and sold destructive opium drugs to their peoples against the wish of the Chinese nation and took Hong Kong from them and modern China has to pay a great fortune to Britain to get it back. Medieval Chinese peoples were not as evil as the medieval Europeans were. That is the major reason why they never colonised Africa, Australian, the two American continents with great thriving civilisations at the time, 3 places the Chinese left and abandoned tiny colonies before the Europeans got to these places using Chinese maps given to the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome by an Italian Marchant who converted to island and married a Muslim in Africa so he can travel to the spice islands to trade and not be killed by Muslim Arabs. He returned home sailing home with the last Chinese imperial fleet that sailed past Africa into the Mediterranean Sea while the second arm of their imperial fleets sailed to the Americas. 100% true history. Read a well researched book written by a British Royal Navy submarine commander to learn more. Author: Gavin Menzies. 1421 The Year China Discovered The World. This is an international best seller that is rewriting history but the white man will not acknowledge books like that written with well researched facts, calculations and historical facts using maps, artefacts etc. The white msn discovered nothing he claimed to have discovered, nothing. He was just a greedy tourist using military mercenaries to follow in the footsteps of the Chinese imperial navies knowing where they were going and the names of these places on the map. Nothing was discovered by accident. They just didn’t know about oceans currents or how to calculate their bearings at sea for centuries after Cristopher Columbus for the white man wasn’t very good at mathematics like the Africans. But once all the knowledgable natives of Africa were killed or captured off as slaves then their children no longer go to school or have people to pass on 2 million years of ways of life and Africa collapsed into what it is today by deliberate and intelligent design by the Caucasians and the Arabs before then. Two races who owe Africa trillions in reparations which Africa must make demands for decades from now when we become a truly united race from Africa to the Caribbeans and more.

@Changamira

2 жыл бұрын

The Swahili Mtepe is a sewn boat is identical to the ancient Egyptian TPT (Tepet), of King Khufu, even in name. Swahili coins of Kilwa were discovered in Austrailian soil. Swahili Mtepe sailors were known to have colonised to coast of Oman, Pakistan and India. In part creating the Sidi or Shidi populations of Asia.

@azaniabantu

Жыл бұрын

@KEMITE GAMER yes it true I am originally pure Bantu ,We didn't come from west we are original from north east Africa we went central and in West we ended up in Tiv land of Nigeria nearboderzone of Cameroon

@azaniabantu

Жыл бұрын

Asians never enslave but we did intermarriage with them

Great and amazing work for our people to fully understand. I saw the map at the beginning of the video 1:29, the map shows Yoruba territory to be far larger than what it was. I hope Yoruba people can correct these errors in the future, so as not to confuse everyone and themselves.

We must be proactive researchers and historical detectives in telling our stories. So as to be careful not to fall into generalisations told by others. 1. There is still no archaeological evidence supporting the hypothesis of Cameroon as the origin of so called Bantu language speakers (source below). 2. There are books on the similar vocabulary shared with ancient Egyptian(and Hebrew) language though(source below). Greek historian Herodotus, and later Roman historian Pliny the Elder speak of 250,000 soldiers of Psamtik I uprising to leave to Nubia, to server the exiled Kings of Kush. And migrating deeper into Africa generations later. These were called the Asumak, Herodotus said the name means "those who rise against(the King)". In many Bantu languages, Sumuka means "to rise/to stand/to rise against". 3. Also, the Rock art of Tasilli N Ajjer, Algeria look strikingly like AmaZulu, Batusi, Shona, & Kikuyu people, all of whom have oral history denoting the left North Africa. And we know the green Sahara completely dried up around the time the migrations are speculated to have began. Sources: 1. "22-JAN-2020 Nature study: First ancient DNA from West Africa illuminates the deep human past A team of international researchers dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature." - Peer reviewed publication on Cameroon archaeology by Saint Louis University. 2. "Linguistic Ties Between Ancient Egyptian and Bantu: Uncovering Symbiotic Affinities and Relationships in Vocabulary" Book by Fergus Sharman Herodotus- The Histories Book 2 chapter 30. "..from Elephantine to the capital city of Ethiopia, and you will come to the land of the Deserters. These Deserters are called Asmach, which signifies, in our language, those who stand on the left hand of the king. These once, to the number of two hundred and forty thousand Egyptians of fighting age, revolted and joined themselves to the Ethiopians." "Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the last Green Sahara"

Am from DRC and learn from from my parents that we're Bantu people

@arushanioshaka5600

2 жыл бұрын

That's where the main bantu tribe originated

@SD_M9

2 жыл бұрын

So you're a race called... people? Because that's what bantu means

@KingOfAfrica90

Жыл бұрын

@@SD_M9 the word bantu can mean different things depending on the context. Bantu/Abantu can mean human/people/descendants of Ntu. When he says we're Bantu he means we're descendants of Ntu

@albertnjenga5439

Жыл бұрын

@@KingOfAfrica90 Among the Gusii people, they claim to have descended from Muntu or Kintu, the father of Moluguhia, the father of Mogusii,Mokamba,Mogikoyo,Mokuria (Gusii,Kamba,Gikuyu,Kuria peoples)

E1b1a haplogroup 🔥🔥🔥🔥

West Africa is not Bantu except Tikar people .. Am Zambian 🇿🇲 but able to connect words spoken in central, East and southern Africa languages.

They had crappy musket guns and Europeans lost military conflicts in the first couple of centuries. And what smaller groups they did they always had the help of other tribes. That's why they had to trade as equals. It wasn't until the advent of the maxim gun that they could conquer and colonize.

@Mmvarto

3 ай бұрын

Well really it was the invention of better medicine, historically people not from Africa had low resistances to diseases native to Africa. So now half your crew didn’t get sick or die, even today people get sick visiting Africa because of climate changes and diseases

Another theory, and probably not credible is the Great Lakes region as the initial area of dispersion. Here we find Lumsabe, the most archaic of the Bantu languages, which not only has it got the full prefix, but also the full pre-preprefix. Other Inter lacustrine languages have the pre-prefix reduced to an initial vowel. Also this is found in the Nguni languages in Southern Africa, one of the last groups to migrate down from East Africa.

@ZAR_72

2 ай бұрын

My biggest issue with the scholarly literature on Bantu origins is that they all ignore oral history by the Bantu people themselves. This ignorance seems purposeful to me. I've seen videos of village elders from multiple Bantu countries and they all speak of coming from the northeast and not West Africa. With that being said there are similar genetic markers between Bantus and the people of West Africa, hence Niger-Congo. So my theory which incorporates the oral history from various tribes is that (1) both Bantus and West Africans come from the north east and split to occupy new territories westward and southward, or (2) the Bantu people came from West Africa, went to northeast Africa and settled there for a long time before coming southward. This would explain how the West African origin was lost through oral history and the more recent northeast origin still remain. Both my theories incorporate genetic similarities and oral history, unlike western scholars who ignore oral history hence they say "it is believed" instead of saying "according to their oral history..."

Thank you Doctor for your insightful presentation. Is there a relationship between the Bantu people groups and the Hebrew Israelites?

@bantucreatedbythecreation2061

Жыл бұрын

there is no connection between us and israelites = isis-ra-el from middle east nor do we come from there, the Bantus are the children of yakoba isolele!, hebruw was a man no language most west africane are the children of hebrew man from his other children also edoma-esau=Nigerans and abraham from his other wives

Bantu migration is simply a hypothesis and hasn't been proven to be facts. I believe the main motivation for white scholars coming up with such a hypothesis was to lay claim to the lands in Southern Africa. That those lands were previously uninhabited and that the Dutch (Europeans) were the first to be there before the so called Bantus.

@africaine4889

2 жыл бұрын

Bantu migration is a fact. Talk to your elders. Our ancestors passed the story down

@afroartist1086

2 жыл бұрын

The lands in the south were inhabited by the Khoisian people so even so Europeans cannot claim said land.

@arushanioshaka5600

2 жыл бұрын

Those lands where not uninhabited the khoisans where there before them

@el-sig2249

2 жыл бұрын

As a Bantu of the Tiv ethnic group I can tell you that we typically have lore and traditions that predates colonialism, and is confirmed by historical and archaeological facts. We didn't learn it from the white man.

@alvanalvino

2 жыл бұрын

My DNA tests and tribal empire history in Nigeria proved it. My ancestors went everywhere the Bantu went up to the boarders of South Africa and the first sons went back home from Nigeria as customs demanded. I came from the first sons all the way to Kemet (ancient Egypt) I could have been born anywhere else in Africa if not for that custom.

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You are right.I speak languages from Southeastern Nigeria,Ghana,Zimbabwe,Congo,Tanzania,Kenya,South Africa and Malawi. All these people are basically the same people.Irs no wonder Ghanains in who live in Southern Africa are sometimes surprised by the similarities when Southern Africans speak.

@azaniabantu

8 ай бұрын

Nigeria and Ghana are not bantus

I'm Soo bantu...and you are so west African...but you did your homework well

Without the Bantu expansion and spread then Central Africa And Southern Africa as well as Madagascar would be much easier for others to take over yeah

dear Dr, I really enjoy yr casts. Africa us ny mother with the greatest diversity on earth. it is not one great amorpheis mass. re Bantu languages: in RSA there are 9 officials languages, two mains, Nguni and Sotho devided into many sub groups. the cultures, taboes, laws of these sub groups, vary enormously. bantu is a word meaning people. the Cape of Good Hope under the Dutch was a revicting station, not a colony. the Dutch married Hottentot (Koi) women. they traded with the Koi, not the Xhosa. the earliest people were the Strandlopers, who became extinct. then came the San, who were hunter-gatherers, displaced by the Koi, who were pasturalists. they, in turn were displaced by the stronger black tribes who migrated from the north. the history of man kind, is one of continual war - territorial imperative. Africa is no different.

@Africa1000

Жыл бұрын

Don't fool yourself...the Dutch did not "marry" the local indigenous women they came across. They used and exploited them, taking advantage of them. The encounter and relationship with the Khoi, San or Xhosa.. (yes Xhosa who were already there thousands of years before the Dutch arrived) was not based on mutual respect.

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We also have Green Sahara ancestry.

any connection between the bantu migration and the Exodus in the bible?

@ZAR_72

2 ай бұрын

That is a very good question. Have you noticed that the migration theory does not take into account the oral history of the Bantu people? It's always "it is believed that" and never "it is said that". I've watched a number of videos where village elders from different countries were interviewed and they all speak of a north-eastern origin or migration. Also Genesis 13 says Abraham went "up", "South" out of Egypt. Up in this context means against the direction of flow of the river Nile. Water flows from a high point to a lower point and the Nile empties into the Mediterranean sea which means that's low or down and not up

@ZAR_72

2 ай бұрын

Genesis 13:1 (KJV) And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

Starts the video off in 1000CE the “Golden Age” but doesn’t mention the Arab Slave trade or the atrocities committed against Africans during that time. Cool story

@pkkgyasi

4 ай бұрын

We get it. We were slaves. People were mean to us. That's all I heard in high school and college. Can we learn the other aspects of African history and culture now?

Migration to where this is our land we didn't have border subsahara what is that 🤯the word bantu mean people the decolonizesion of our people will take long

My biggest issue with the scholarly literature on Bantu origins is that they all ignore oral history by the Bantu people themselves. This ignorance seems purposeful to me. I've seen videos of village elders from multiple Bantu countries and they all speak of coming from the northeast and not West Africa. With that being said there are similar genetic markers between Bantus and the people of West Africa, hence Niger-Congo. So my theory which incorporates the oral history from various tribes is that (1) both Bantus and West Africans come from the north east and split to occupy new territories westward and southward, or (2) the Bantu people came from West Africa, went to northeast Africa and settled there for a long time before coming southward. This would explain how the West African origin was lost through oral history and the more recent northeast origin still remain. Both my theories incorporate genetic similarities and oral history, unlike western scholars who ignore oral history hence they say "it is believed" instead of saying "according to their oral history..."

@ZAR_72

2 ай бұрын

Why make up your own theories and rely on them while the people are still around and you can ask them? It doesn't make sense to me. Plus even though we don't have our own written records, royal houses are a very reliable source of oral history being passed down from generation to generation

They majority of African-Americans aren't bantu people

@moshupologokatlego2915

6 ай бұрын

Who are they then? I dont understand

@MR707videos

6 ай бұрын

@moshupologokatlego2915 bantu speakers a predominantly central Africa. Most African Americans are primarily west African in origin from non bantu speakers

@moshupologokatlego2915

6 ай бұрын

@@MR707videos oh I see

@moshupologokatlego2915

6 ай бұрын

@@MR707videos And then Igbo as well are not ir are bantu. A lot in America would say they com from Igbo's , that's if you know.

Nobody speaks "bantu" or whatever it was anymore its either afro-anglo afro-spanish afro-dutch afro-portugese afro-italian afro-arabic afro-french

@johntweets331

2 жыл бұрын

who said there people who spoke bantu🤷🏾‍♂️...poor ears

@africaine4889

2 жыл бұрын

Prous bantu. 100% bantu with no colonizer mix

@Kemite_Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@africaine4889 no such thing as 100% bantu since africans dont speak the "bantu" language it is kind of a dead language while the colonizer language is the most dominate in africa

@Kemite_Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@johntweets331 how do I have poor ears dude you basically repeated my point to me

@el-sig2249

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kemite_Gaming Yes, colonizers brought their languages but we still have our bantu languages. I should know, 'cos I speak 2 bantu languages and they are thriving independently of the colonial languages.

people follow game, ir better grazing for their cattle, or flee from volcanic reruptions ie East Africa, or floods and earth quakes.

Bantu never originated from west Africa but from east africa

Bantu means children of Ntu

When we do we get to hear the African story? You know without all the new age religious bs. Religion has destroyed my people! Stop sugarcoating our story, we’ve been subjugated by every race and religion on this planet, I’m tired of it.

Dr Sankofa, you need to do a new video on bantu migration instead of keep reapeting the same thing over and over. I go through your comment section and I only see, a people biased about history, Some say they are East Africans and others say they came from Egypt. Why don't you just illustrate bantu similarities with West Africans be it in animalistic viewpoint of the world, Iron technology we came with from west Africa, Sorghum, millet, african groundnuts, we use to make FuFU, Shima, ubwali, ugali e.t.c, Our Religious masks, Hairstyles in Dr congo gotten from the Nok culture, Our facial features, The remaining bantus in Nigeria who still have bantu worlds like Nama or Nyama meaning meat. Plizzzzz do that, just look at the people in your comment section, Honestly I want to learn our history fully supported by science in peaceful.

there is no connection between us and israelites = isis-ra-el from middle east nor do we come from there, the Bantus are the children of yakoba isolele!, hebruw was a man no language most west africane are the children of hebrew man from his other children also edoma-esau=Nigerans and abraham from his other wives

European Bantu history.

So the Bantu were colonisers!

@nqabakula9262

Ай бұрын

It seems like it. It's was nature's plan during the period. Not driven by greed and exploitation. We were just traders and farmers.

Bantu people don't originate from. West Africa ....Bantu origins are from East Africa .....please let's us talk about what we know Bantus don't have DNA from west Africa.......Bantu languages related to east African. Languages and central Africa ....Bantu migration in West Africa ended up in tiv land .....that doesn't mean we originate from west .....look our culture ,livity are different from west Africa.....we are sub Saharan Africans consist of swahili,lingala,kikongi,Lua,kinyarwanda,Zulu, Ndebele, Swati,Xhosa,Shona,chewa,tumbuka, Tonga, Tsonga,ronga, Tswana,lozi,Sena,Buba,tikar,tiv.etc Please google Bantu languages before you start giving facts

@nwabisaluti4711

Жыл бұрын

Bantu originate from West Africa Bhuti.

@azaniabantu

Жыл бұрын

@@nwabisaluti4711 where in West Africa and how many countries in West Africa speaking Bantu languages tribe and languages

@KingOfAfrica90

Жыл бұрын

@@nwabisaluti4711 where in West Africa? Bantu people come from Egypt and other North East Africa. It the rise of the Arabs that caused the migration from there to central, east and southern Africa

@nwabisaluti4711

Жыл бұрын

Nigeria and the Cameroon region . It was not with borders then. You are also right other groups do come from the Egypt, ethiopia--infact Nigeria population migrated from Egypt themselves. So you are right also. Another group came from Central Africa tribes like the Thembu originated from Congo . However they lost their language, they speak the Bantu - Nguni languages now. Baba Mandela died lamenting the loss of their original Thembu language. He was always vocal about not being Xhosa but Thembu only speaking Xhosa because his original language was lost.

@KingOfAfrica90

Жыл бұрын

@@nwabisaluti4711 if that the case the number of Bantu people will be very high in Nigeria and Cameroon. Bantu people in Cameroon live in the Southern part of the country. In Nigeria the Tiv who migrated from Congo are considered Semi Bantu or Bantoid. This are signs that Bantu people are not from there. Recently they was a study in Cameroon in the Shum Laka region which showed that ancient inhabitants are not the same as the current people living there. How can Bantu people then come from Camerron or Nigeria? Many Bantu Cameroonians have said same themselves that Bantus are not from Cameroon. Which tribes in Nigeria come from Egypt and Ethiopia? What I know is the Fulani and Hausa people who are Hamites came from Chad, Niger, Sudan and other North East African countries just like Bantus they migrated due to the Arab expansion in the north. Xhosa nation has many sub groups unlike other Ngunis. The Thembu people are Xhosas as well from Eastern Cape. The original Thembu language was a Nguni and can't be that different from the Xhosa spoken there

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Another awesome video, thanks. I do find it a bit odd that you described the Bantu migrations as spreading out (while displacing or eliminating much of the local population) but described the European migration as colonisation (while doing pretty much the same thing). Obviously there's no way I'd draw a direct comparison with white supremacists there's a similarity in the way you select different ways of describing the same thing.

I don't really believe in that so called Bantu narratives, why because I have never seen anyone who claimed he is a Bantu ethnic group, I simply believe that its simply over exaggerated by European colonisers which I don't believe that the have power to tell we Africans our own stories. I have asked so many people around different countries in Africa if there are an ethnic group called Bantu which they all disapproved and claimed they have never seen anyone who said he is a Bantu

@ludigomhagama4023

2 жыл бұрын

ABBANTU is ABBA + NTU . ABBA is father and NTU is people. People of the most high. Bantu languages is the same. I'm from TANZANIA if I speak my local language , someone in southern Africa will know everything. BANTUS are moving from place to place because of the wars. BANTUS are used as slaves . Are good building skills and architecture. They enclave woods and make doors and many statues even use to enclave stones and make statues.

@africaine4889

2 жыл бұрын

I am a proud bantu. I doubt u talked to any bantu

@AuntieVee

2 жыл бұрын

Please study before making statements like this.

@el-sig2249

2 жыл бұрын

Duude! I am Tiv, one of the half dozen or so Bantu languages in Nigeria alone. And we have our history tracing our migratory roots that dates before the coming of the white man. I seriously doubt you did any serious enquiry about the Bantus.

@QueenLadySummer329

2 жыл бұрын

I am also of southern bantu peoples ancestry as well.

west africans are not bantus

@moshupologokatlego2915

6 ай бұрын

Why do you say that?

@azaniabantu

6 ай бұрын

They are not bantus they don't speak bantu language ​@@moshupologokatlego2915

Not migration, COLONIZATION. Bantu people COLONIZED the Pygmy ,Khoi and San peoples, enslaving, murdering looting and dispossessing. Funny how you ignore that fact.

@kiritugeorge4684

9 күн бұрын

Do the Pygmy, Khoi and San people have oral tradition describing colonisation? I'll wait.

@rowbearly6128

9 күн бұрын

@@kiritugeorge4684 Yes, they do.

@rowbearly6128

9 күн бұрын

@@kiritugeorge4684 Europeans have an ora; and written tradition detailing the African colonization and enslavement of Europeans for 700 years in Iberian Andelusia too....maybe read a history book while you are waiting..

@kiritugeorge4684

8 күн бұрын

@@rowbearly6128 Source on your "Yes, they do": Delusion Anyway, see how you were quick to move away from your shaky claim to one you thought was stronger. Suddenly when it comes to the Iberian peninsula and Andalusia its not North Africans or Arabs, its now Africans. Funny how that works. Regardless, Iberia wasn't colonised. If you contrast it to the Americas you'll understand why this is the case.

Nigerians do your DNA tests especially when you hear folklore and migrations stories about your ancestors. You will be shocked at what you find out. I could have sworn I was 100% genetic Nigerian besides ancient Egypt of cause. Instead; I am 94% Nigerian with the rest scattered across the Bantu nations. No coloniser forces is out of West Africa to disperse our people. We took them in both directions and seeded new territories so our kind can thrive across Africa.