Bantu

Nationalism and Marxism are two of the most influential ideologies in the 21st century. Nationalism is the patriotic feeling and principles of that nation . Marxism is the political and economical theories of a nation based on past events and ideologies of the community. Back in the early and late 1800’s slavery was a huge issue that boomed in the north and south. These were very prominent in African American literature because it showed the difference in culture, what racial equality was back…

QUESTION 2 “We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa”-Oliver Tambo . Apartheid can be defined as the racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the 20th century, its name means “separation” in Afrikaans, the mother tongue of the colonisers. Apartheid was practically based on racial segregation, as well as race domination or superiority. It was about political and economic discrimination, which excluded black; coloured;…

One of the biggest linguistic effects of migration occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Bantu people over the course of hundreds of years migrated across the majority of Central and Southern Africa and while they were doing this they left traces of their Bantu language behind them. This made many languages in this region of Africa to stem off of the Bantu language and still today you can see the effects the Bantu language had on Sub-Saharan Africa’s…

In the years after the death of Christ, religious beliefs such as Bantu, Christianity, and Islamic faith became the center of the civilizations Africa. In the lower regions of Africa, the Bantu tribes based their religious beliefs and lifestyles off of the environment that surrounded them. These tribes where located in Torrid Zones that made it hard to create a settlement for them to live in, making them pastoralist. In the upper regions of Africa, particularly in the North, the Romans used…

1) The Chinese eagerness for western products and the growing and flourishing of the cities led to the development of the Silk Road. Also, the favored idea by the Europeans, of a route linking many lands together to trade, was also an event that led to the Silk Road. 2) The Mesopotamian border entrepôts and Samarkand, are examples of the impact that the Silk Road had on Asia because goods from other countries were bought and sold throughout different countries, and stops were made along the way…

stone-using forest farmers of the Congo basin, the independent development of iron-working in the east African great lakes region, centuries before the Common Era, and lastly, stone-using cereal farmers and pastoralists of the east African plateau. Once Bantu-speaking farmers had united these three elements and developed a combination of mixed farming and iron-working by the turn of the beginning of the Common Era, the new culture spread rapidly through the southern half of the continent. Taking…

were initially established by Arab merchants, resulting in a great amount of lasting cultural influence-- Swahili peoples today (now spread throughout eastern African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania) still speak a common language (a mixture of Bantu and Arabic roots) and are greatly influenced by their Islamic heritage and religious traditions. In contrast, Great Zimbabwe (a name meaning "city of stone"), located in southeastern Africa,…

telling farmers what to grow for what price, controlling immigration and monopolizing trade, some farmers tried to escape by moving further inland. In 1780, the bantu-uprisings started and the vee-boere could not expand further than Fishriver. Some of them were forced to settle in Fishriver. There were a lot of similarities between the Bantu and the Khoisan tribes. They were bound in communities, military capable, were cattle herders and agriculturalists and worst of all, they were put on a…

At the end of the slave trade, Portugal’s commerce was crushed and the Senegal’s had to adjust again, when the French colonized the Muslim communities, converting much of its population to Christianity. The country’s population is composed of the Bantu people, whose society speaks a common native language of Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena and Portuguese; nothing more than a Sociolinguistics salad…

the West by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the South by Tanzania. The current population estimate is 37,873,253. Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: The Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and northwestern portions of the country. The most prominent ethnic groups within Uganda include Baganda, Iteso, Basoga, and Banyankore. These ethnic…