Bantu

In time, the populations of these regions adopted Bantu agriculture as well as language and other lifeways. By the year 1000 CE, the people south of the rainforests were not only successful farmers but also miners, especially of gold, copper and iron. They were also specialists in ceramics, patterned cloths…

Tutu attended the Bantu High School in a Western native Township, where he later matriculated in 1950. He studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College from 1951 to 1953 and pursued a diploma in teaching (Thefamouspeople.com, 2015). Tutu was accepted in to the University of Witwatersrand to study a medical degree but could not attain a bursary. He then decided to follow in his father’s footsteps of teaching. After completing the course he went to teach at the Johannesburg Bantu High school in…

Cross-Cultural Interactions Communities would start to interact more with one another during this time period. Starting with the Nomadic Turks that would travel from one place becoming the sultans of areas in Persia, Anatolia, and India. I would not always sacrifice the people of these areas, but if allowed them to be apart of there communities if they convert to the Nation of Islam. At the same time, a Mongol Empire was thriving who often had an alliance with the Nomadic Turks. The nomadic…

great influence on other Khoisan languages. The borrowing of words of the Khoekhoe languages also show that the khoi have been in contact with other Khoisan family groups. Some clicks form words in the Bantu languages such as Zulu and Xhosa are also used in the Khoekhoe language because the Bantu groups associated themselves with a group of Khoi inhabitants for water for their herds and crop…

The kingdom was officially founded in 1100 BCE. They traded gold, ivory, tortoise shells, and slaves with the Persians and Arabs from the Middle East, which resulted in a blended culture; part Bantu and part Arab. The people of the Swahili Coast were Muslims, but also had strong beliefs in spirits and medicine men. A lot of people were middlemen, who would journey back and forth between the Swahili Coast and the Middle East for trade. Kiswahili…

The Republic of South Africa, according to its first democratic constitution, officially speaks 11 languages, of which there are two West-Germanic languages (Afrikaans and English), and nine Bantu languages (isiNdebele, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and isiZulu). Due to such diversity, South Africa represents a highly valuable source of information for studying the phenomenon of multilingualism. The essay will first focus on South Africa’s peculiar historical…

1885, when the Congo Free Sate was founded. The Luba Empire has had a long-lasting influence on the politics of the region, as well as its ethnic makeup, since it formed a large, contemporary ethnic group out of a formerly disparate collection of Bantu tribes in the Upemba…

Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the African continent that is located south of the Saharan Desert. Per the New World Encyclopedia the actual line of demarcation is the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. (New World Encyclopedia). Sub Saharan African is different from the rest of Africa in many ways. These differences are mostly a result of geography and climate. “Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions of Africa have been separated by the extremely harsh climate of…

The Bakongo, also known as the Kongo people, are a group who inhabit the Western central coast of Africa and are considered to be a stateless nation. They are a Bantu-ethnic group, simply meaning they are one of the hundreds of groups that speaks a Bantu language. Although they consist of multiple clans that are spread throughout multiple states their common language of Kikongo gives them a common unifying characteristic (Minahan). The territories they inhabit include the Republic of Congo,…

1. Introduction: “Two thousand years ago there was a major break in the economic and social world of southern Africa. Domestic animals and pottery were introduced for the first time into an environment of hunter-gatherers. There is considerable debate on the origin and spread of domestic animals on the subcontinent, but no argument that they have arrived from the north” Quoted by Cummings et al. 2014:484). According to Mountain (2003:40) the Khoekhoen have been regarded as the ethnographic…