How the Bantus Permanently Changed the Face of Africa 2,000 Years Ago (History of the Bantu Peoples)

[@synqelectric6163]

I am a Bantu. A Kikuyu from Kenya. When I was a child, I could hear a Congolese musician Kanda Bongo man's song "Tika kolela" and thought he was saying "Tiga korera" which is in Kikuyu. Surprisingly, it has the same meaning. "Stop crying". That's when I realized how similar we are as Bantus.

[@aidan2849]

Does anyone in this comment sections speak Xhosa? I hope you know your language “Eli lama sabachthani” is written in Matthew 27:46 of the Bible. Microsoft translator attests to this as did google translate before the algorithm removed it

[@mahlaledmashale8528]

@@aidan2849how is it translated ? Is it the same as what it means or said to mean ? I’m in South Africa.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

@@aidan2849 Yes. I am Xhosa.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

@@aidan2849 No. That is not Xhosa. Or you might have misspelled the words so badly that they aren't even clear to me. I speak Xhosa. But, I don't think what you're writing is Xhosa. Maybe the word "eli lama" Means in English "this of the" The words "sabachthani" Is not a real word and has no meaning as far as I know.

[@KK-ygh]

Thaii❤

[@genghiskhanye]

I'm from Rwanda and I am always amazed when I meet Shona, Kikuyu, Zulu or Douala people; our language have many similar words (Ingwe>lion/tiger, Inyama>meat, Imvura>Rain, Zuba>Sun, Mwana>Child, Gukama>milk a cow... We also share lots of names like Shaka, Mugabe, Musare, Ngoma, Ngali, Muthoni, Nyagura etc. Sometimes I play Richard Bona's music and can easily sing along to his songs/lyrics. We should take these colonial borders down, we are ONE people!

[@paulynnegonga1816]

Impressive... A Bantu from Namibia... Ongwe/Cheetah or Leopard, Onyama/ meat, Ovula / rain, okaana/child.... Same words for sure

[@mpumelelocebo2126]

Wow! This is awesome. I'm Zulu by the way. For us ingwe>leopard, inyama>meat, imvula>rain, mntwana>child. The similarities are insane. Ancestors of the Zulu people are the Nguni so judging by this the Nguni people definitely migrated from the north between 1000 AD - 1200 AD

[@Lebanto]

same with burundi. we are one

[@Monke_boi13]

@@paulynnegonga1816 in Congo rain is mvula

[@Monke_boi13]

@@mpumelelocebo2126 in Kongo we say mvula

[@ireneepie6441]

I am a very proud Bantu from Cameroon, and my tribe is Bakossi. My language is Ekose ,a dialect of what is now linguistically called 'old bantu'.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Then you must be a champion at playing victim? How does it feel to paint Europeans and Middle eastern(who brought tech and civilization to Africa) people as villians and yourself as owners (who committed genocide of Southern African trbes)???

[@manigha8306]

@@Babajagnee do research

[@abcminime]

@BBJ33 you must be white to ask a question like that😅🤣

[@abcminime]

Ekose is not old bantu. Bantu did not start in Cameroon.

[@abcminime]

@BBJ33 what kinda question is that. It comes from a north African black tribe called afriye when julius conquered the place he named himself julius africanus fro conquering the afri-ye nations. The continent was reference to african because of that cause that's all white people knew. But yea Africa is an tribe that still exist till today in lybia. The afri-ye

[@ryankapyamba102]

I'm from DRC and living in south Africa and I could hear 20% of Zulu without effort. Proud to be bantu muntu😊😊

[@beforethenextstep305]

I’m African American, our ancestors who arrived from kingdom of Kongo, and kingdom of Ndongo Congo and Angola, were the only groups who were allowed to bring their language and culture into the USA. Which is why ppl from there notice some bantu words in our AAVE, example Lu-fuki = funky .

[@fullmetaltheorist]

Unjani lapho wena mngani wami? Usifunde kuphi isiZulu?

[@gangomane840]

Wow marvelous our African words still influence the world

[@adrien1623]

@@beforethenextstep305why were the only group allowed to bring their culture to the USA? Today there is even more revealing cuktured in usa other than Congo

[@dominus9963]

My grandmother is from the Bakundu Tribe of the original Bantu people. She met a person from Gabon and could understand her perfectly despite the geographic distance between the two regions.

[@seekingtruth4573]

The Gentlemen Network Never heard of them. That is interesting.

[@darklighten8143]

My dad and mum are from Ngolo- Batanga/ Ilondo Ngolo, one of the oldest Bantu tribes in Cameroon, legend has it that the Bantu migration started from that region, bordering Nigeria and Cameroon close to the bight of Biafra. My dad understands Swahili to an extent and he understands Lingala perfectly. Bakundu, douala, bekoko, bafaw etc is just a broken down language of the Oroko clan in Cameroon. About the Bantus in the diaspora, people actually don't know that the oldest slave trade fort in West Africa is in Cameroon, it's somewhere around Bimbia, a buried history by both French and Britain. In every African diapora whose leanage dates back to the transatlantic slave trade, they'll have a percentage of cameroon.

[@thomashenry4798]

Its like how Spaniards and Italians can still understand each other, sorta, kinda, if they speak really slowly and clearly. In fact, english, spanish, french, and italian share a lot of words, depending on who conquered whom and when. I couldn't necessarily hold a conversation with a Frenchman, but I could probably say 'yes' or 'no'. Cause its all the same words. Bantus were the African version of Romans and Greeks.

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

The Gentlemen Network wow

[@teeb3035]

The Gentlemen Network same here ,I’m from Malawi and speak Chichewa and I was able to understand a Kenyan speaking Swahili

[@thandofiltane9706]

Dude. U said Xhosa way better than most people in SA who don't bother to try to pronounce it. Aweh!

[@user-ce5yh3zx4v]

Very impressive

[@cauwenberghsroeland8607]

Xhosa....Ipi Ntombi Iam ....Wapi / Mpe Ndumba Yame (Kikongo)....Nkosi/Mokonzi( lingala).....Mbote, mbote, mbote : salutations in Xhosa and lingala, salutation and "good" in Kikongo ( kahle/kakuhle - malamu/bolamu ). Mfasi , in lingala mwasi, in Chiluba also mfasi , and Ngombe, Nkomo for the cow.... BUT Kikongo and Lingala have a decimal counting system identifying a million, efuku, what does evidence they did write ( lingala could have higher numbers adopted from kikongo , it is after all a kind of esperanto to trade . Bakongo did have their own hieroglyphs. They wrote.) Lingala, is spoken very completely in Makanza, but that form is hardly understood elsewhere .

[@cauwenberghsroeland8607]

I did, but lost to much teeth. How will I say a fish? ( intlanzi)? ...A little child? ( umntwana umceci )-... My nickname in Middelburg- Cape - by the employees of the agricultural college Grootfontein - 1977 ?- was Uthanda Abantu...But I forgot most.... Thando has to be close to Uthanda....

[@tarahjames1485]

As a Bantu person I understand most words spoken in Lingala and Xhosa as well as Swahili. We have many words that are similar.

[@h.m.5724]

And you xhosa think you invented click sounds. Guess what you stole them from the Koisan.

[@doudoubambareedwaan8147]

Proud to be a Bantu from the Bakongo tribe DR Congo

[@prisca5417]

i am a bantu from the Luba tribe in Drc t.

[@prettyboyterianoabioye4833]

@@prisca5417 I’m Bantu from Gabon from the bateke tribe

[@nalik4905]

I’m half Portuguese and half Bantu from two tribes, the Ndau and Tswa tribes from Mozambique

[@hebrewisraelitesjew5133]

@@nalik4905 is your dad Portuguese?

[@nalik4905]

@@hebrewisraelitesjew5133 my mom is

[@ndunal]

im a muntu (singular for bantu) from southern africa, loved this. by the way, as much as the term bantu is coined from linguistic similarities among bantu ethnic groups where "NTU" is the common factor in these languages, the word "bantu" actually means "people" with "umuntu" meaning "a person", these 2 words may slightly vary from in spelling and pronunciation from dialect to dialect eg Motu or mutu or batu etc but it means the same thing

[@abcminime]

Bantu doesnt mean people. This probably the most inaccurate statement i always come across. So i will correct you: Ntu means spirit. There is no word for people in most bantu language. People or person is a european term you don't find it in all cultures. NTU means spirits our ancestors referred to eachother as spirit not as person or people. We are spirits bantu. Ntu - is the spirit, mu-ntu - is i the spirit . Ba Ntu - is we the spirit. Not sure if you believe in it. But Ntu did not originated in Cameroon i am not where they get there information from. And ntu is not 3000 years old it predates adam and eve

[@mduemgazie4597]

But manje in the dictionary it says Bantu/umuntu means People/person... That said, this means that we r the only tribe that deserves to be called people these others they must use their own term coz they not from the generation of Ntu..

[@mduemgazie4597]

These ppl like pushing their own narrative n agenda if the kois r the oldest how do they explain the Adams calendar n ancient pyramids that r in the areas the koi n san didn't live in..n the Bantus r the largest tribe in Africa.. If we jst arrived how is it that we r so many then..

[@gatshenindlovu8224]

@@abcminime well not entirely inaccurate, in Zulu Bantu means people, Abantu the people and umuntu a person so his or her version is correct do not dismiss it.

[@mydaskenya2188]

I'm Bantu from Kenya. Muntu just means person in our language. Also BAntu hail from various sections of central africa. Also Why do white men insist on retelling our history. The nilotes are jus that, people around the Nile. They call themselves the Nubi as is the river and their God was Anubis, before advent of Islam n Chrisitianity. African History, is told through written records, but via dirges and songs sang during traditional ceremonies such as Initiation. Your not a native if you have to be taught your culture via external sources. you would know them by heart as its passed down via everyday living.

[@ruvilakazi4237]

Khoi-San are two different groups of people, Khoi Khoi and San people.

[@cauwenberghsroeland8607]

Even peoples. Several nations of both....

[@jakekrijger9009]

Absolutely, and I’m not too sure with the location on of the Khoisan people at 0.33 I always knew the Khoisan to be the only ethnic/endemic people to South Africa in particular the cape/western coastal regions

[@ruvilakazi4237]

@@jakekrijger9009 From the north of the Western Cape, through to the Northern Cape and into some parts of Namibia and Botswana etc. They were nomads who only settled after the Europeans landed.

[@jakekrijger9009]

@@ruvilakazi4237 interesting, not something that was taught to us in school or university, we where made to believe that they pushed north into to Kalahari desert because of the Bantu expansions as well as the European invasion. Nice to finally understand the true origin of these people, fascinating.

[@vai_vai]

Khoikhoi if the white men given name their name is Bathwa/Thwa people

[@judykester3970]

Wow, as a South African I could tell the first time you said “Xhosa” was okay, but the second time was spot-on! Impressive

[@mensilak]

you are Dutsch or English , not African !

[@xyg6543]

Mensi, racist!

[@bankai1234561]

u a European Dutch man not a real African, only south african on paper. European south Afrikaner, no different than a black person from Europe or america

[@xyg6543]

bankai, another racist idiot.

[@bankai1234561]

+Oxygen racist like u whites sure lol

[@windmonkey95]

European, Asian, and North and South American history are all really interesting but I really appreciate this video and would love to see more videos about African history since it's so rarely talked about compared to the other continents. Keep up the great work!

[@lewistaylor2858]

why would it be talked about in other continents? it is 1. not interesting 2. not important to anyone else or the world for that matter 3. so little was recorded so there is so little to investigate 4. the rest of the world has sooooooo much history to learn, so much that is actually relevant and important to us. I'm sorry for being honest but I would much rather learn about Ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, Ancient China, the middle ages, the enlightenment etc

[@lexetordo8954]

@@lewistaylor2858 I'll some up what you're really saying friend Africans have done nothing of importance therefore deserve no acknowledgment. Hell I truly believe early paleolithic did more than Africa excluding south African and egypt.

[@MotivateMoments2023]

Nice

[@matthewmann8969]

@@lewistaylor2858 That is so off the marks and rails Africa below the Sahara has plenty of history in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Uganda, and more yeah.

[@lookoutforchris]

@neyou good thing comments don’t require questions.

[@huffnagelhuffnagel7526]

Hello, I am Cameroonian. That place where the Bantus originated from, is around the Rio del Rey area. Precisely in the NDIAN DIVISION of Cameroon 🇨🇲 where you find ancient Bantu tribes like the Ngolo, Balue, Balondo, Batanga, Barombi...etc and settlements like Mundemba, Manja, Meka, Ekondo titi, Bafaka...etc

[@panafrican.nation]

I really need to learn more. I wish I had 48 hours in a day. I'm Kenyan but have been fascinated by Cameroon for a long time

[@nnfefe9451]

In a study, the people of Balondo in Cameroon understands Lingala. Bolingo is as popular there as in DR Congo. They lip sing with melodies like Biantondi Kasanda of Dr. Nicco.

[@Kunta-Kinte002]

Those are not tribes but subgroups

[@blaqbutterfly90]

This comment has touched me sso deeply. I am a Xhosa speaking Bantu woman from South Africa, and when I recite my clan names, Ngolo is a part of them. Now I know where I come from😢❤❤❤❤❤

[@Eldiez-y2y]

I am a proud Cameroonian and Bantu as well,from the Beti sub-group. I have been raised since my child hood with Congolese and I can say lingala is very similar to the Duala language .Names like Mukoko ,Akwa,Ndongo etc can be found Cameroon as well as in Congo,Angola and even the name Obama which is popular in Kenya . I shouldn't also forget to mention that some words like "Nkulunkulu" in isiZulu have the same meaning in Bantu sub-groups of Cameroon.

[@SmashhoofTheOriginal]

I wish we knew more about Africa pre-Bantu Expansion. The Khoisan languages are so mysterious, and it would have been amazing to see them spoken across a much wider area.

[@andreiii204]

Africa is such a diverse continent

[@bobbye.wright4424]

Andrew Coke very true

[@samogwang6103]

I think you have to first agree on what you mean by diversity or level of diversity. Is it skin color, nose/face shape, height, language, cradleland or haplogroups? Otherwise, there are only two: Sub-Saharan Africans (Sub-Sahara proper + Horn of Africa) and North Africans. Morphologically, even excluding skin tone, I think there is a lot of variation among Sub-Saharan Africans. Even the Bantu don't look alike at all in the vast areas they occupy and I think the wide nose is overstated. The Nilotes and Chadic groups have as many appearances as the number of groups and cannot be described as having wide noses. The pygmies are often lumped together as one even though they are very diverse in their own way across much of Central Africa. I guess the Khoi-San too.

[@ruvilakazi4237]

Prince of Greater Somalia Khoisan isn't correct, it's khoi-san because these are two different groups of people... The Khoi(Khoi Khoi) and the San.

[@FatimaZahra-sf9sh]

Prince of Greater Somalia North Africans are berber the indigenous people of north africa we aren't arabic fucking idiot.

[@zakp8687]

Africa is hardly diverse, apart from Horn Africans, North Africans & Khoisan the rest of africa is basically all wide nosed black bantus & west africans with high birth rate. I wouldn't call that diverse.

[@TheObsidianOrderSector001]

Some examples of such Bantu states include: in Central Africa, the Kingdom of Kongo, Lunda Empire, Luba Empire of Angola, the Buganda Kingdoms of Uganda and Tanzania; and in Southern Africa, the Mutapa Empire, the Danamombe, Khami, and Naletale Kingdoms of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and the Rozwi Empire.

[@RQDK]

The Kingdom of bornou?

[@josephinemamabolo1280]

you are right I'm south Africans. but looking at this countries like Kenya,Tanzania, Zambia,Namibia their language sounds like us.in south africa before 1994.in Limpopo we were listening to radio Bantu and there was bantu education. they are far North but I think we are one.

[@TheObsidianOrderSector001]

@@josephinemamabolo1280 absolutely we are one even genetically not only by language.

[@achalinaantonio6287]

We are definitely one, I am from Angola and I speak Isixhosa, it was easy for me to learn xhosa because Kikongo is similar to xhosa.

[@TheObsidianOrderSector001]

@@achalinaantonio6287 absolutely true, the Bantus don’t just speak similar languages, but genetics through DNA has proven that they came from the same stock. 65% of all slaves taken to the Americas were of Bantu origin.

[@edwinotiatomarwa.6361]

Proud to be a bantu from Kenya. My language is Kuria located at Kenya-Tanzania border.

[@BrandonChawane]

Bantu are called 'people of the book'

[@jordansaipaia4467]

Interesting

[@kaderdao1335]

@Dfw Fqdefqw No you don't comprend what this idoit is talking about .I am African and this not his first video on African poeple .this idoit don't know shit about us nor that he never been in Africa to talk about the bantu migration. Plus he say bantus are from west Africa do you know how big is west Africa? Did he know the tribes on this big region. And Cameron is not in west Africa by the way

[@Shahmar]

😂😂Damned👿😈..NOTHING about it being called Ophir in the bible. What about the migrations of the sons of Mizraim down to Lake Victoria populating South Africa approx 3,500 t0 3,000 BC right after the flood(smh) By default it was OVERFLOWING with beautiful trees, intoxicatingly fresh water, grapes the size of your hand and bananas big as your thigh🤣🤣🤣 King Solomon set up Naval bases all along Africa when he sold spices to East India🤣🤣🤣Black Jew Navy Seals who taught India/Arabs/Thai how to cook like that. Don't believe 😈😈

[@madmouse4400]

There's how many languages there ?

[@samuelndondo753]

I love you all my brothers from all over Africa, proud to be a bantu"I am because we are"

[@kevinwilmore3604]

Your people were inscribed in the Summerian stone tablets under the scription "A.N.T.U" the sons and daughters of the God "AN." Your people inhabited the first five cities, one of those cities was called "E.D.I.N" this the Bible Eden (White washed Mzungu lies that concoured your minds). You come from the original people. And don't you forget this.

[@rashadjones8517]

Do you believe Europeans should be proud of who they are as well?

[@rashadjones8517]

@@kevinwilmore3604 lmfao Jesus Christ how narcissistic. Sadly, that's not uncommon for "history buffs" like yourself hahaha wowsers

[@Tashaten]

@@rashadjones8517 No they are Neanderthals the fallen ones origins the caucus mountains!!

[@tabithakiloko7783]

Ubuntu mi frend

[@Okwash1]

I'm from the Bantu group that became Luo. Our group got mixed up with the Luo during the Luo migration, we call ourselves Abasuba or Luo Suba. I'm proud to be Luo Nilotic and also proud to be Bantu......Africa is very mixed.

[@BrandonChawane]

Hey man, interesting history there. I'd like to know more

[@Okwash1]

@MegLowAsk and you'll be answered or just do your own research. I'm talking about the Luo Abasuba group from Kenya. Don't just comment for the sake if commenting.

[@mahalo675]

Amen to that brother

[@mahalo675]

@MegLow yes they are Lupita looks both Nilotic and Voltaic

[@NoRockinMansLand]

@AnaWaSankuru it might originally be a european classification but they were correct, the classifications work

[@natashanyundo2684]

I'm from the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe ..love all my bantu people 🇿🇼🇿🇼...bantu means vanhu in Shona

[@rhbm8951]

i love you my bantu sister, i am bantu from the congo of the bakongo tribes

[@Flatbush21rst]

I never heard of the Shona tribe, but I will look them up . Thank you for giving me something to research, much love!

[@frederickntumba3662]

Bantou or Bantu; means human being in Congolese language " Congo DRC. "

[@tshegomokgothu236]

Bantu means people in zulu

[@psionicpowers132]

Boo, it's divisions they created against us. I don't call myself that term bantu and am from Africa.. They created divisions everywhere so we fight one another, it's a spiritual war so open up your pineal gland and see clearly

[@djdigital3806]

I’m a Bantu. My 🧬 DNA test confirms this. My family is from North Carolina. I was born in New York City.🏙️ We migrated there!

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

So well done! It's rare to see pleasant and respectful coverage on African history. Thank your!

[@menghis7286]

God, people can't watch ONE video about history without ripping each other to shreds in the comment section.

[@dio-chu]

Yea I'm just here for a school assignment since we're learning about World history but these comments are agressive!

[@ernestburger3445]

lol

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Your commonsense and even temperament offends me.

[@BrandonChawane]

Problem is that the person who compiled the video seems he got all his information from recent European sources, the first wave of Bantu coming into main land Africa was around 720BC. We didn't just appear in west Africa out of nowhere

[@Jeremy-sj3pr]

There is a ton of tribalism and East African Cushitic people are racist to Bantu’s. That’s a lot of what you’re seeing.

[@oliveranderson7264]

As a Rwandan (not an expert), I'd like to point out a mistake you made around 5:00. Tutsis and Hutus although having originated from different places do not differ much linguistically. The different "dialects" within Kinyarwanda and Kirundi are mostly geographical and have nothing to do with ethnicity. By the way, although I understand why some people may think otherwise, referring to the Hutu/Tutsi/Twa as ethnicities/ethnic groups is probably incorrect since the only difference between the three are a pre colonial form of social classes and a few physical differences that don't mean much today.

[@CrazyLeiFeng]

A few physical differences....

[@cinnamonstar808]

all of this is a mistake. BLACK PEOPLE are over 1 million years on this planet. they dont know anything.... with their lab created self

[@WealthyThomas]

Make a video clearly showing the true origins please

[@sgonzo5572]

They became enemies because the UN tried to have one rule over the other. Thats why they fought each other recently

[@sgonzo5572]

@vicent sykes im not rwandan im latin american Its a fact that that the UN tried to have one rule over the other. And it was set up that way because of belief of their origin making them more fit to rule. Someone can be bi racial. So someone could be hamite and bantu. But i don't care about that

[@stonecoldbaka]

Just got my ancestryDNA results and i have 28% Cameroon, Congo, West Bantu Peoples! This video is amazing! And i love my bantu brothers and sisters ❤️❤️

[@Fundream]

There is no such thing as bantu people go and ask for you refund

[@Fundream]

Maybe the correct term is Nguni people

[@Fundream]

@@veronicajata3121 to say you have bantu DNA it means you can be any tribe in africa from South East West Central Africa.That is nonsense.Bantu is not a tribe its a collective noun to group certain people together by white people.Unlike Europe Africans are very diverse and they tried to limit and lessen our greatness and diversity with the bantu word.Yes bantu is common in most languages but it does not mean we are of such ancestry. I am Zulu who descended from Nguni from Central Africa.So which time were the Nguni descendants of" Bantu"

[@Africa_In_SA_Podcast]

Which Congo?

[@Monke_boi13]

@@Fundream how come all Bantu ppl look similar and have similar language,music,food that’s like saying cushites aren’t a people 🤦🏾

[@backtoafrica895]

100% Bantu here and still speak one of the original bantou languages ( Bandjoun) from west Cameroon. Hello my people!!!!!

[@RichardJenkinsFxCreations]

Isnt Bantu a language group and not really an ethnic group?

[@theforcecometh2709]

They are Banu, Not Bantu as the Europeans call them.

[@queenestherc-squared802]

We're also an ethnic group.

[@kmk835]

@@theforcecometh2709 I was born and raised in Uganda and raised in the Buganda traditions. I 1000% know it's Bantu no Banu! Unless the entire Ugandan population got it wrong.

[@darwinkjohnsonniowa]

@@kmk835you are correct. This guy is confused.

[@HeatExchanger]

Bantu means people

[@JuliaIndomita]

I’ve always found the Bantus, their history & languages fascinating. Growing up in South Africa during Apartheid, we were taught that the Bantus only arrived in that area of Southern Africa when Europeans did, in an effort to lessen their claim to the land. Another aspect of Bantu history that would be fascinating as a topic is the mass exodus of people from the east coast of South Africa, then known as Zululand. When Shaka was building the Zulus into a powerful & warlike tribe, millions of people from other tribes, legitimately fearing extermination or assimilation, fled into the central & northern parts of South Africa & Zimbabwe. It was an incredibly tragic episode but had a significant impact on the region. If I remember correctly, it was called the “Mafekane”. Please consider making a video about this episode. Thanks for your outstanding videos.

[@KingOfAfrica90]

It called Mfecane. Most of the history of Mfecane is false. You will get told more than a million people died. Yet the zulu tribe was less than 4 million. If u look deeply into it to check which tribe died you find nothing. MFECANE was just a migration of people who didn't view Shaka Zulu as their king so they left. One of them was ZWIDE who was the leader of the Ndwandwe. The second one was Mzilikazi wakwa Khumalo who was Shaka general. He is the one that settled in Zimbabwe and took a new tribal name Ndebele. Shaka did attack Faku, the king of the Mpondo people but there was never a war instead they left port shepstone and settled in eastern cape. He also attacked the king of the Sesotho people Moshoeshoe they was never a war instead they saved by some big rocks in some mountains that they were able to push to kill the invaders and some migrated to Zambia and took a tribal name Lozi (sesotho). The death of Mfecane were less than a million

[@JuliaIndomita]

Major Lloyd very interesting. Still would be a fascinating episode to learn more about.

[@kaderdao1335]

And i am so sorry for your intelligence .and you really believe this bullshit they feed you in school. How that hell the bantus arrived 5he same as the Europeans that don't even make sence. This africa come one how the hell Europeans arrived in africa in the same time as africans ? That don't make sense. Bro read your the history more before the Dutch it the Portuguese lead by a explorer called batelemound diaz .yes he did met the koisand first .but he was tald by the koisand that they was other people that they got problems whit in the interior and the koisand was thalking about the Zulus who dint really lived or inhabited the coast lines .but it doesn't mran that they wasn't there at all .they was there for thousand off year way before Europeans .but on defferent location and territories .in sout africa .this bullshit theory use by white supremacists to justify their presence in Africa is to easy specially base on bullshit and insult to Africans intelligence. Europeans no where in africa before the Africans. And they not gonna win this bullshit talk they wanna to court to justify their presence in Africa. They can't win this .

[@lingibilliard4809]

You're right. And we arrived way before the Europeans !

[@tutonguni529]

@@lingibilliard4809 we've been in Azana for at least 2500 yrs buddy the people lie

[@patrickshikolishikoli940]

Am a Bantu from Kenya my tribe from history we originated from the south into Congo then kenya, my language is similar to tribes in Congo, Uganda, Zambia Tanzania Etc Bantu in my language means people

[@Snpiedog]

Im bantu from Congo my tribe is Hemba. Our elders say we settled in south east congo from somewhere in the north walking down the nile. According to KZbin and Europeans I come from Nigeria.

[@patrickshikolishikoli940]

@@Snpiedog its only Nilots, like Luo, Langi, etc who originated in Nile region of Sudan. Whites don't know our history

[@Snpiedog]

@@patrickshikolishikoli940 I know im just saying my tribe says that settled in present day south east congo(katanga) by walking down the nile bro. Regardless im real interested in Bantu origins we are legit one special group of people

[@patrickshikolishikoli940]

@@Snpiedog I base my argument from the Bantu patterns of settlement and Nilots also cushits. My tribe in Kenya in the west we are the last Bantus to the north west then Nilots who goes up to Sudan and south Egypt. I d like to know or hear some of your language

[@Snpiedog]

@@patrickshikolishikoli940 im not saying we are nilotic in the least but I feel like Bantu were once living up north you can even google similarities between bantu and ancient Egyptian/ Hebrew words brother. I am MuHemba. We were under the rule of Luba empire but specifically I am not from the Hemba who mixed with Luba. On KZbin search Hemba bible story. I dont know if this is a different dialect of Hemba because the video says Luba hemba. All I know is that my father says we came from the nile side before congo and possible by Tanzania or something. We no longer speak Hemba but have adopted Swahili and French these days. Regardless please search Hemba Bible story its a Jesus video in hemba and let me know if its similar to your native tongue! Whats your tribe by the way brother.

[@chadsknnr]

The people at 3:08 and 3:23 are examples of what we have been trained to identify as "black skin" or "almost totally black", but take a closer look: their skin is still brown, just a darker melanistic brown than the other people represented in the video. The 3:08 people have a subtle purple iridescence to their complexion, but still brown. Coal is black, hair is black, not human skin . . . .

[@Bprovo]

Just as white people are not white. It's all just tags we came up with for effect

[@epixdevo3180]

@R M theres darkskined people in africa because there outside all day like me

[@001islandprincess]

R M The reason why many Africans and particularly Africans throughout the Diaspora call themselves black is that the have no true knowledge of their ancestors identity in Africa via the enslavement of their ancestors for centuries in the so called New World and they are still mentally shackled to the people who classify themselves as “white”. Clearly black people are the creation of “white” people; in other words, black people are the illegitimate “children” of so called “white” people.

[@TFO63]

Your language map is wrong. I say this as a "Bantu person". The Western Cape in South Africa has millions of Xhosa people, they aren't only in the Eastern Cape.

[@gpj6321]

The map is from years ago when Xhosa mainly stayed in Eastern Cape not recently when all moved to Western Cape for better opportunities. Whole video is about how Bantu moved south from up north 200 years ago and settled in South Africa

[@terrableus]

This origins history is completely wrong. First of all there are no Khoikhoi people, it is the Khwekhwe people and the are the product of Bantu and Abathwa (the San). I don't know where these people get their history from because everything they say is a bunch of Caucasoid rubbish. We do not originate from West Afrika. We migrated from East to West, Sudan being the focal point of our migration towards: 1) West {Central African Republic, Cameroon, all the way to Nigeria(derived from Niggro lands Niggeria) & Ghana(formerly AKA The Kingdom of Yahuda)} and to Atlantic slavery by Jews, Spanish and Portuguese. 2) South Central {DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswane and then South Africa (Contributing to the diversity of the region i.e. the Sotho, Pedi and Tswane originating from the Lozi people in Zambia) and Namibia being native to the Nama Abathwa people (AKA Bushman or San who were later slaughtered in their millions by the Germans under the rule of Otto von Bismarck). 3) South East: The Ngoni People (AKA Nguni from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) {to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and then South Africa contribution to more diversity of the region i.e The Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa region (Thembu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Bhaca, Xesibe, Bambo AKA Mfengu (Fingoes from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) etc. Most of all we did not migrate for the stupid lame reasons that are mentioned but were running from the likes of the Caucasoid EVIL KIND, Islam and Jews of whom together have teamed up over the past 2000 years and have killed over 200 million of our people (Bantu) to date and still counting. I think Caucasoid should work on their own history as to Who Were Caucasoid? Where did they originate? How did they come into existence, Where and why did they expand? because as far as history and reality are concerned, the Caucasoid is only about 4000 years old. They must leave our history alone because we know exactly who we are.

[@aviweyantolo5023]

@Rocky Fletch Xhosas have always been in the western cape but the increase in numbers is for "better opportunities"

[@aviweyantolo5023]

@Rocky Fletch the encounter you speak of is conflict not "encounter" per se. They weren't always in transkei but they didnt arrive after settlers as your people claim so. these settler even tried to erase the history of mapungubwe history so the "bantu are foreigners and enemies" narrative can be pushed to divide africans

[@aviweyantolo5023]

@Rocky Fletch thats generally accepted history told by whites, the xhosa had long settled before the white came, infact there was a time when xhosa people were not known as the xhosa but the nguni. they assimilated into khoi san land when they moved south as you said hence they adopted the xhosa language (which is khoi and nguni) and intermarried . they clearly wouldnt have formed such relations in a short space of time. most importantly the nguni/xhosa didnt conquer the khoi san as the xhosa assimilated into khoi language and culture.

[@snakehead4213]

All this moving around is the reason why it's rare to find someone who doesn't have mix DNA

[@yarpen26]

On the bright side, at least thanks to it Africa isn't such a clusterfuck of unrelated language families like Australia or the pre-Columbian Americas.

[@sahulianhooligan7046]

All humans have mixed dna, the closest thing to unmix pure blood humans are Australian Aboriginals.

[@sahulianhooligan7046]

Yeah this is why race mixing is important.

[@sonikku956]

GanjaFarmer Not really, Aboriginal Australians have ancient South Asian (specifically Indian) DNA from around 5,000 years ago, and as of recent, a *lot* of European DNA.

[@kevintroy4329]

Native Californias have the most language Isolates, The Chumash Indians have been on the Southern Califoria Coast and the Northern Channel Islands for over 8,000 years, Problaby longer, on top of speaking a isolate, they are also genetically distinct, and unrelated to the Ute-Aztecan, Penutuans, Hokan speakers surrounding them.

[@dolled-upjen3606]

I'm bassa of Cameroon and we are Bantu. We are told by our elders that we actually migrated to Cameroon from the nile river in Egypt. Yes, the original natives of central Africa were the Forest people formerly known as the pygmees one of those groups being the BAkA people.

[@KingOfAfrica90]

Your elders were not lying to you.

[@ThebelieverMtiz]

You the term bantu In my language simply means human being. I am a bantu from Sough Africa by the way 😼

[@bornagainchristian3742]

Yes I agree what my Cameroonian sister is saying. I'm Eton🇨🇲

[@tuksasusa639]

I am a Bantu from Cameroon as well, Balong tribe. It's true, the Pygmies (Baka) of Cameroon are the original inhabitants of the land and narrate how the Bantu pushed them into the forest as they migrated into the area.

[@rowancrouch4789]

Not lying, just wrong. ​@@KingOfAfrica90

[@GnosticCushite]

Cushites and Pygmies were in the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania long before the Bantus. Also the Khoisans were in South Africa long before the Bantus like the Zulu.

[@detectiveexpressking4078]

The Panther and before the dutch were the khoisan

[@tomrice6346]

You keep repeating small numbers and dismissing the Rwanda genocide as not part of Bantu migration as if the Bantu were native to East Africa. The Bantu killed off the Khoisan people who inhabited the vast majority of the territory of Africa because they did not have iron making skills. The Bantu still continue to kill the Pygmies because they don't have weapons to defend themselves. The Bantu could not kill off the Nilotics and the Cushitics because these two groups were the Nubians and knew how to make iron weapons so the Bantu expanded to San, Khoisan and Pygmy territories and killed them off.

[@tomrice6346]

I think you're on that Negrocentric history. The Khoisan never lived in Northeast Africa they inhabited South Central/Western Africa, the San people inhabited South Eastern Africa. The Bantu inhabited a location in West/Central Africa and so every land they now occupy outside of their original homeland has been stolen from other indigenous Africans. I also notice you never talk about the plight of the Pygmies because it clearly shows how the Bantu are killers and land thieves. Go watch videos about the Pygmies' extinction the Bantu are responsible of and how they discriminate and treat them worse than Whites ever treated Bantu slaves.

[@tomrice6346]

The Panther That guy who writes at anthromadness is not someone who has any degree in genetics it's just a guy who gives his own opinion and there are many out there, so I wouldn't base and entire group of people genetic history on a guy's hobby. Also if you have read that article you know about genetics you would have known he's talking about BASAL Eurasian which means Eurasian with NO Neandertal admixture. Again the Khoisan never lived in Northeast Africa. Let me explain to you the migration because you seem to only believe what you want to believe. The Horn Africans are not from Asia they are from the Horn of Africa and the Levant, they descend from a population that lived around the Nile from Ethiopia to around the Tigris/Euphrates in the Levant and on the Western side of Arabia from the Gulf of Aqaba all the way to Yemen. That population had NO Neandertal and Denisovan admixture meaning they were not White or Asian, they also were not Negroid as they didn't have Homo Erectus admixture. When the Homo Sapiens started spreading from the Horn of Africa around 80,000 BC most stayed around the Nile and Tigris/Euphrates but others moved deep into Europe, Asia, West Africa where Archaic hominid already lived and so they mixed with Neandertal in Europe, Denisovan in Asia, Homo Erectus and some other unknown Archaic hominid in Central/West Africa. In the Levant, around 10,000 BC the descendants of those who went deep in Europe and Asia come back and invade the Levant they were known as Caucasoid Hunter Gathers and Eurasian Hunter Gathers. They learn farming from the people of the Levant, some locals mixed with them some didn't. These 2 groups of mixed and unmixed coexisted along side, around 6000 BC groups of mixed farmers spread back to Europe and Asia to bring farming. As time passes the mixed group grew in number, they abandon their languages such as the Sumerian and adopt the local's Semitic language and they start spreading fast taking territories from the unmixed population, they spread Westward then Southward going south in Arabia. The unmixed original population all migrate back to East Africa in 3000 BC in what becomes known as the Savanna Pastoral Neolithic migrations. The mixed population takes over the Levant, Arabia and gives birth to the Akkadian, Assyrians and so on...to modern day Arabs. The Horn of Africa is where Anatomically modern human are from and that's where the San people are from like everybody but they lived in South East Africa with other local people who were Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan . On the other hand, the Khoikhoi descend from a group of Eurasians who penetrated East Africa around 1000 BC and migrated further to the South and settle with other San people because the Cushitic who migrated 2000 years before during the Savanna Pastoral Neolithic migrations had already settled all the way to Northern Mozambique and so the Khoikhoi had to move further South and Inward to settle with the San people who lived there.

[@tomrice6346]

Is Egypt in Western Asia? because last time I checked they had Egypt in the Middle East which as you put it is in Western Asia. This is the game Eurocentric play and it's well known.

[@rayyahamber5556]

Bantu means "people", if you ask anyone in a Bantu speaking country they all have the same name this varies depending on how much they were isolated or influenced by outside traders but it's still the same. That's how you know that you are a Bantu person.

[@christophermusenzejr]

yes i does in my language luganda its abantu

[@bobbyshabangu]

I'm a Bantu person and I can say you've nailed it!

[@RQDK]

Let me say this he didnt

[@mamieyakibonge2893]

Lots of slave in Brasil are from Kongo(DRC)...and half of the country speak Swahili

[@joaoropol7764]

No we are from yorubá kingdom

[@ze_ondabeat4660]

A part of them are from Kongo Kingdom : it ain't the same

[@yvans.]

João Ropol you don’t know where from stop 😂😂

[@marciabryce8451]

@@ze_ondabeat4660 Congo are Hebrew Bantu ppl

[@ze_ondabeat4660]

@@marciabryce8451 , yes, it's true

[@Alex_Plante]

You make a mistake at 1:30 when you say that the descendants of the Italics became the modern French Italians and Portuguese. That's true of the languages, but only partly true of the people. While undoubtedly many Italians settled in the various provinces of the Western Roman Empire, the French, Portuguese and Spanish of today are still largely descended from the original Iberian and Gallic people who lived there before the Romans. The Bantus, on the other, did largely displace most of the native Pygmies and Khoisan, because these people were hunter gatherers and the Bantu introduced and adapted the African-style agriculture developed in West Africa. The going was slow because West Africa is a Monsoon climate similar to India whereas Central Africa is an equatorial rain-forest similar to the Amazon. In East Africa, which is largely savannah except for the highlands and near the great African lakes, so the pastoral Nilotic peoples (such as the Masai) tended to dominate. By the time they reached South Africa, Bantu expansion was limited by the temperate climate that didn't allow African-style agriculture. The Cape has a Mediterranean climate, which is why Mediterranean crops introduced by the Dutch and French ancestors of the Afrikaners dominate there.

[@Coregame3]

Alex Plante that's what I was thinking

[@MbuRasmeni]

Displacement due to the Bantu agricultural style as opposed to the hunter gatherer style used by the Khoi is often unmentioned by some who've concluded that most of the Khoi were displaced through genocide. Masaman mentions the assimilation that took place, like in the case of the Xhosa people who now have on average 30% Khoi San DNA. No honest person would argue that conflicts didn't arise as a result of the Bantu migration, but I'm often shocked by the assertions that the Khoi in southern Africa were displaced through genocide only, with little or no evidence to back up that claim

[@sjappiyah4071]

“ but only partly true of the people “ Same thing with the Bantus, there are still plenty of pre-Bantu populations such as pygmy and Khoisan. On top of that large populations intermarried. And similarly how Rome brought the Latin script, Bantus brought agriculture, That doesn’t in itself replace the “people “ it just replaced the lifestyle and culture

[@francoistony5684]

1630/5000 La première forme de domination est la population. Aujourd'hui c'est gênant de le dire mais le succès des Bantous est indéniable même en Afrique de l'Est !!! sans les bantous, l'afrique de l'est serait un village en plein air. L'arrivée des Bantous au Kenya a permis de développer les villes de Nairobi et Mombasa, le Kenya est l'un des pays les plus tribalistes seul le problème est que économiquement, politiquement et démographiquement les Bantous ont pris le relais dans tous les domaines! !!! ! c'est la même réalité en tanzanie !!! sur parle ici d'afrique de l'est mais si on se concentre sur l'afrique centrale d'origine des bantous il faut noter que tous les pays bantouphone en afrique centrale sont les plus urbanisés en afrique avec une urbanisation supérieure à 90% au Gabon, 72% en Guinée équatoriale, 67% au Congo Brazzaville, 56% au Cameroun, 45% en RDC. La corne de l'Afrique est urbanisée à moins de 25%, 27% pour le Kenya (seules les grandes villes modernes comme Nairobi entièrement construites par les kikuyu). Les masaï sont aimés parce qu'ils aiment vivre dans la brousse, la vie moderne n'est pas nilotique. Si vous parvenez à me donner le nom d'un grand pays nilotique en Afrique, riche, économiquement et avec des conditions de vie acceptables, j'acceptreai que vous disiez la vérité. Mais la réalité est que les pays les plus riches et les plus développés de l'Afrique sub-sahélienne sont presque bantous comme le Botswana, la Namibie, l'Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, le Gabon, le Cameroun, le Kenya, l ' Angola et la Tanzanie. , Zambie, Zimbabwe, Congo Brazzaville, Guinée équatoriale la vie moderne n'est pas nilotique. Si vous parvenez à me donner le nom d'un grand pays nilotique d'Afrique, riche, économiquement et avec des conditions de vie acceptables, j'acceptreai que vous disiez la vérité. Mais la réalité est que les pays les plus riches et les plus développés de l'Afrique sub-sahélienne sont presque bantous comme le Botswana, la Namibie, l'Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, le Gabon, le Cameroun, le Kenya, l ' Angola et la Tanzanie. , Zambie, Zimbabwe, Congo Brazzaville, Guinée équatoriale la vie moderne n'est pas nilotique. Si vous parvenez à me donner le nom d'un grand pays nilotique en Afrique, riche, économiquement et avec des conditions de vie acceptables, j'acceptreai que vous disiez la vérité. Mais la réalité est que les pays les plus riches et les plus développés de l'Afrique sub-sahélienne sont presque bantous comme le Botswana, la Namibie, l'Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, le Gabon, le Cameroun, le Kenya, l ' Angola et la Tanzanie. , Zambie, Zimbabwe, Congo Brazzaville, Guinée équatorial

[@seth3491]

Most French are descended from the Franks; a Germanic group.

[@sourceoflife1328]

Great to know how the Bantu even migrated to Madagascar, Mauritius and the rest of the Indian Ocean. Feel Bantu and Zulu now thanks for this program.

[@Coco-kw3iv]

You know what this means right??? Bantus in all corners of the world...

[@morganbabu3105]

Trade and slavery pushed them to scatter(deutornomy 28:68) deut 28:15-68.people of d most high

[@EstaJeanette-nk7fj]

They took boats and went to Madagascar where they meant other groups and mixed with them.

[@jamaafulani5712]

Good video. Thanks. One thing though: Swahili isn't written in an Arabic script anywhere anymore. Hasn't been for decades now. But apart from that the video was well-made and mostly accurate. Source: I'm a Swahili native speaker and ethnically Bantu.

[@jamaafulani5712]

Have you tried the Swahili course on Duolingo? It's free and as simple as installing the app on your phone. I suggest you start with it. And if you want you could also come over to our Swahili Discord server where we help each other with everything regarding the Swahili language. We have beginners to advanced and native speakers. If you're interested then come over using the invite link discord.gg/Z4rtjKH to join. Karibu!

[@emmanuelgathara696]

Anele Mlambo try Duolingo app/web-site, native Swahili/English speaker here

[@Sigmanovar]

crips in LA use to learn swahili

[@leriq1]

i know some OGs that fled from the US actually who live in Arusha.crip tatted n all.

[@jamaafulani5712]

No, it isn't.

[@movingforward.6221]

Am a Namibian and I can understand 60% of languages spoken in east Afrika they’re all similar to my Bantu language in Namibia 🇳🇦 ...

[@umojapress2857]

We're the same people

[@christophermusenzejr]

interesting

[@tefeloramollo8460]

I'm Bantu and I speak Sepedi (Northern Sotho). Ke leboga matsapa a o a tšerego go dira video e (Thank you for taking the time to make this video)

[@terrableus]

Find more about yourself friend. This origins history is completely wrong. First of all there are no Khoikhoi people, it is the Khwekhwe people and they are the product of Bantu and Abathwa (the San) union. I don't know where these people get their history from because everything they say is a bunch of Caucasoid rubbish. We do not originate from West Afrika. We migrated from East to West, Sudan being the focal point of our migration towards: 1) West {Central African Republic, Cameroon, all the way to Nigeria(derived from Niggro lands Niggeria) & Ghana(formerly AKA The Kingdom of Yahuda)} and to Atlantic slavery by Jews, Spanish and Portuguese. 2) South Central {DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswane and then South Africa (Contributing to the diversity of the region i.e. the Sotho, Pedi and Tswane originating from the Lozi people in Zambia) and Namibia being native to the Nama Abathwa people (AKA Bushman or San who were later slaughtered in their millions by the Germans under the rule of Otto von Bismarck). 3) South East: The Ngoni People (AKA Nguni from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) {to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and then South Africa contribution to more diversity of the region i.e The Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa region (Thembu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Bhaca, Xesibe, Bambo AKA Mfengu (Fingoes from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) etc. Most of all we did not migrate for the stupid lame reasons that are mentioned but were running from the likes of the Caucasoid EVIL KIND, Islam and Jews of whom together have teamed up over the past 2000 years and have killed over 200 million of our people (Bantu) to date and still counting. I think Caucasoid should work on their own history as to Who Were Caucasoid? Where did they originate? How did they come into existence, Where and why did they expand? because as far as history and reality are concerned, the Caucasoid is only about 4000 years old. They must leave our history alone because we know exactly who we are.

[@terrableus]

Find more about yourself friend. This origins history is completely wrong. First of all there are no Khoikhoi people, it is the Khwekhwe people and they are the product of Bantu and Abathwa (the San) union. I don't know where these people get their history from because everything they say is a bunch of Caucasoid rubbish. We do not originate from West Afrika. We migrated from East to West, Sudan being the focal point of our migration towards: 1) West {Central African Republic, Cameroon, all the way to Nigeria(derived from Niggro lands Niggeria) & Ghana(formerly AKA The Kingdom of Yahuda)} and to Atlantic slavery by Jews, Spanish and Portuguese. 2) South Central {DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswane and then South Africa (Contributing to the diversity of the region i.e. the Sotho, Pedi and Tswane originating from the Lozi people in Zambia) and Namibia being native to the Nama Abathwa people (AKA Bushman or San who were later slaughtered in their millions by the Germans under the rule of Otto von Bismarck). 3) South East: The Ngoni People (AKA Nguni from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) {to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and then South Africa contribution to more diversity of the region i.e The Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa region (Thembu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Bhaca, Xesibe, Bambo AKA Mfengu (Fingoes from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) etc. Most of all we did not migrate for the stupid lame reasons that are mentioned but were running from the likes of the Caucasoid EVIL KIND, Islam and Jews of whom together have teamed up over the past 2000 years and have killed over 200 million of our people (Bantu) to date and still counting. I think Caucasoid should work on their own history as to Who Were Caucasoid? Where did they originate? How did they come into existence, Where and why did they expand? because as far as history and reality are concerned, the Caucasoid is only about 4000 years old. They must leave our history alone because we know exactly who we are.

[@richierichard511]

We are proud to be Bantu.

[@mstevens832]

Me too +254 Kenya forever LONDON LOCKED

[@abdiguinean4940]

💯💯💯

[@mstevens832]

Kikuyu or Gikuyu roots The oringinal MAU MAU FREEDOM FIGHTERS

[@mursalwarsame5839]

@@abdiguinean4940 you are bantu

[@abdiguinean4940]

@@mursalwarsame5839 Somali waa bantu

[@BigBandelero]

I absolutely LOVE the hell out of this channel. So much useful information. More people need to eye this.

[@itoeasuh850]

Am a cameroon from the Bantu tribe (oroko) from the Balue (lulue ) tribe I salute my family from south Africa and across Africa after research I discovered we act and almost look alike

[@Geraldbux-411]

It is incorrect to say European arrival at the Cape was before the Bantu. This is false because all the ledgers show that the Sotho were already present in the free state. The people who say this is of course the Dutch who ommit to explain that it was the Bantu who thwarted there advance into the interior very early on.

[@Genuinepleather]

The bantu expansion is real. No point denying science just to uphold a black-bantu supremacist belief.

[@maadtee6281]

@@Genuinepleather he never denied that what he is denying is that there was no Bantu group in southern Africa when the European came because they already were there

[@cauwenberghsroeland8607]

The cape means the cape...Not the mainland, and far south-west of the Drakensberge and the Karroo... The africans living there were Khoikhoi and San. Sotho were east of the river called by the Boer Keirivier, and up in the Drakensbergen. ( sorry , I know only the name of those mountains in Afrikaans ), and north of them, however a lot bigger than the little ground allowed before by the Boer, Quaqua.....

[@Geraldbux-411]

@@cauwenberghsroeland8607 So which African dialect do you know? Dutch are well known for being purposely ignorant of their neighbours..

[@Geraldbux-411]

You should know that the Tswana of Botswana are also known as Northern Sotho. The Tlokwa are recorded to have migrated from Free State after Prince Matlapeng killed a Boer over Matlapeng's wife.

[@daveharrison84]

Anytime in history when an ethnic group expanded their territory quickly it was because they were the first to discover a new technology. Either a new weapon that helped them win wars and conquer new land, or a new farming technique that caused their population to grow.

[@angeera]

I am from South Sudan and yes we do have very dark skin

[@zeitunihatibu6024]

Thanks for this history! I am a bantu from Tanzania, my tribe is Pare ( from Pare mountains on the south of Kilimanjaro mountain)! My language is Kipare which in our own history we call the language Chathu

[@chalgoode6449]

Thank you for the corrections Masaman! Your videos are getting better and more comprehensive. Keep it up!

[@jnyerere]

Swahili has never been written in the Arabic Script. Maybe the ancient scripts of Zanzibar were written in Arabic. But as far as school goes, Swahili has always been taught and written in the Latin alphabet. Also, while Swahili itself is a hybrid Bantu language with Arabic loan words, 90% of its speakers can neither read nor write in Arabic.

[@TuAmigoElMorrocoy]

Mason did the Xhosa click! Damn son, I'm impressed... Even if you didn't do it well, i think it's cool you at least tried I don't speak Xhosa though, so you may or may not have nailed it. Just saying lol

[@laughterhappiness5436]

TuAmigoElMorrocoy his pronouciation of xhosa is great for a non speaker of the language but it's slightly of, the click for the x has to be emphasised and said very clearly.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

I speak it and he did a pretty good job pronouncing it.

[@bonganimkhwanazi2081]

Bantu means people in Zulu (from: abantu)

[@nenda86]

Makaveli chuckling bantu means people in all bantu languages 😎

[@254react]

Watu means people in Kiswahili. 😂

[@254react]

@@LK-ho1dg We Say "MTU" that's an individual. Watu is plural.

[@thegreat0220]

Well in Botswana where the San now are we call a person "motho" and people "batho"

[@bonganimwelase4127]

I'm Zulu under Nguni (Xhosa, Swazi.,Ndebele & Zulu) tribes from South Africa Umuntu =a person Abantu = people

[@Mik3xcellence]

You still havent done west africa..whats up with that? You have a huge nigerian following! You're awesome Masaman!

[@YJ-cs8hw]

The Artman dude the bantu expansion happened. its well proven, u guys arent native to east africa. it was only inhabited by cushites b4 ur arrival.

[@CoachTamba]

All this guy did was ask a question. All of you berating him should produce your own videos rather than watching a video you deem to be unfit to be told by anyone other than the "originator"..y.e you're here for two reasons. 1. To watch or 2. To talk down to others... take a back seat.

[@YJ-cs8hw]

The Artman the oldest skelton found in kenya and Tanzania is an cushite. dont deny the obvious u aint native to east africa. bantus origin is in west/central africa.

[@YJ-cs8hw]

The Artman give me 1 thing that backs up ur claim, u cant. all i have to do is search thousands of different sources proves the bantu expansion happened.

[@sjappiyah4071]

alanbev you do realize he’s part Black right...

[@patrickzegadlo4495]

This man puts in work, thanks for the fast video uploads

[@another90daystochangethis34]

You forgot how they spread iron smelting technology.

[@wanguikariuki7673]

m0ng and agriculture too.

[@johnvonshepard9373]

lol

[@sparkman1314able]

Another 90 days to change this dude is a racist.... He did not forget

[@sparkman1314able]

???

[@parthbonde2106]

Brandon Sparkman lol how'd u know? He may have not known or even forgotten

[@semikazim4141]

I love this interest in my people's history. We will continue supporting you 🇿🇦

[@ShakiraLasha]

Hey so I have a question. Cameroon, Congo & South Bantu peoples came back in my DNA & I’m a little confused. So do I identify as Bantu & my peoples just trace back to Cameroon & Congo. Or am I Cameroonian, Congolese & Bantu ?? Please help 😭😭.

[@satura4113]

You're Bantu. There are a small number of Bantu tribes in Cameroon and the majority of Bantu are found in Central and Southern Africa. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raCTomRrhayBecU

[@ShakiraLasha]

Satu Ra Thank you!

[@shon2365]

Ancestrydna says I’m 37 percent Nigerian, and then 25 percent Cameroon, Congo, Southern Bantu people. I still don’t understand the difference between my Bantu ancestors and my ancestors in these other areas.

[@ShakiraLasha]

Shon Hollis I’m guessing it means that your people trace back to Cameroon & Congo. You’re still Bantu but they just reside there. I was a little confused about that too.

[@aristideebila9864]

Cameroon congo just mean kongo basically you are kongo or cameroon mean the same peoples living in cameroon and congo share the same genetic line of bantu peoples concentrated in congo cameroon area here is my email [e-mail] or my contact 0044 7404240633 am in the uk

[@nathanandsopa]

Wow that was a pretty intense 10 mins. Thanks! All this easily accessible info on African history is fantastic.

[@WorldWide2017]

I appreciate how you actually discuss this stuff Mason. Most Americans couldn't give less of a crap about Africa. Thanks for not presenting Africa as the "shithole" it's often portrayed as in the US.

[@TruthPrevails30]

Hello, Bantu people in the comment section. I’m African American and I would like to learn about your culture from you. Do you know of any popular channels of Bantu people telling your history? I’d love to support, learn and visit your beautiful counties one day. Blessings and love to you all!

[@KingOfAfrica90]

Hey Mrs H what's ur fb name

[@nikowabantu6216]

South ,east and central Africa belong to us (Bantus ) those who don’t want to live with us they should leave we kicked out Europeans and Arabs no other ethnic groups helped us so Now the nilote people wants to mess with us very soon we’re going to take Rwanda and Uganda back and they will go back to Somalia or Ethiopia if they don’t like us they should stop speaking our languages and appropriating our cultures

[@lolo-hp3bt]

@@nikowabantu6216 please stop

[@CentaurisNomadus]

@@nikowabantu6216 Ok

[@itsusi3259]

@@nikowabantu6216 My Brother War Will not Help we are all after Abantu

[@luckynzimande7341]

We are Bantu in south Africa although we mixed with khoikhoi and San

[@mdujulwamazibuko6636]

Not all of us mixed with the Khoe and the san

[@terrableus]

This origins history is completely wrong. First of all there are no Khoikhoi people, it is the Khwekhwe people and the are the product of Bantu and Abathwa (the San). I don't know where these people get their history from because everything they say is a bunch of Caucasoid rubbish. We do not originate from West Afrika. We migrated from East to West, Sudan being the focal point of our migration towards: 1) West {Central African Republic, Cameroon, all the way to Nigeria(derived from Niggro lands Niggeria) & Ghana(formerly AKA The Kingdom of Yahuda)} and to Atlantic slavery by Jews, Spanish and Portuguese. 2) South Central {DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswane and then South Africa (Contributing to the diversity of the region i.e. the Sotho, Pedi and Tswane originating from the Lozi people in Zambia) and Namibia being native to the Nama Abathwa people (AKA Bushman or San who were later slaughtered in their millions by the Germans under the rule of Otto von Bismarck). 3) South East: The Ngoni People (AKA Nguni from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) {to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and then South Africa contribution to more diversity of the region i.e The Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa region (Thembu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Bhaca, Xesibe, Bambo AKA Mfengu (Fingoes from Caucasoid ignorant BAD pronunciation) etc. Most of all we did not migrate for the stupid lame reasons that are mentioned but were running from the likes of the Caucasoid EVIL KIND, Islam and Jews of whom together have teamed up over the past 2000 years and have killed over 200 million of our people (Bantu) to date and still counting. I think Caucasoid should work on their own history as to Who Were Caucasoid? Where did they originate? How did they come into existence, Where and why did they expand? because as far as history and reality are concerned, the Caucasoid is only about 4000 years old. They must leave our history alone because we know exactly who we are.

[@tholendlovu1700]

@@mdujulwamazibuko6636 fools like making comments and are ignorant of the topic at hand. Same with the idiot that made this video, I should stop watching stupid...

[@cytkl]

@@terrableus they are demons in human flesh

[@lm_b5080]

@@terrableus hi, thank you for your reply, this topic is very interesting for me. could you propose books i can read on the matter? i've been struggling to find a heritage/lineage of kings and kingdoms for southern african tribes of the past 1000 years?

[@tom_curtis]

One of the things I find interesting about the Bantu expansion is that it largely kills the hypothesis that measured average differences in IQ between Africans and Europeans are genetic. The reason is that there are also large measured differences in average IQ between nations within the area of the Bantu expansion. Those differences, however, are not genetic. The Bantu expansion has created significant genetic similarity across the whole area. Thus the differences among Bantu people are due to differences in environment (eg, prevalence of malaria, differences in nutrition), development and colonial history. Given that, it is extremely likely that all, or nearly all of the measured differences between African and European populations are down to similar factors. Certainly nobody has shown the opposite. Indeed proponents of racial differences in IQ largely turn a blind eye to those factors, making their theory a convenient ideology rather than science.

[@tom_curtis]

@@timecatalyst500, are you asking if I am aware that the argument that Africans are less intelligent is driven by racism rather than science, and that any rational rebuttal will therefore be ignored by the racists that adhere to the theory? Well, yes. I am aware of that. It does not mean we should not take the opportunity to show how absurd the theory is (as I have done).

[@TSGC16]

@@tom_curtis if only it were true.

[@businessproyects2615]

That is partially absurd: IQ is over 50% inheritable, it means that in a period of a few generations if there's strong selection you can have a swift in IQ levels; we are talking about millennia here, differences will manifest quickly. The differences between the Etnicities that people call white and the ones that they call black, somewhat persist even when living in a very similar environment; that and the fact cold winters and industrialization constitute a push for higher IQs at the genetic level, since they reward intelligence a lot: Leads to the conclusion that the groups people call whites are to be expected to have, as it stands now, higher genetical IQs on average than groups called black. People somewhat resist that because it was used as an argument for opression; but that is irrelevant to the explanation, in fact is a lot simpler to say the shortcomings of this or that as opposed with other group, over a fairly long period of time has had average intelligence as a cause. It makes sense; on the individual level, I would say some people perform more than others; because they work harder and, or are smarter. The notion that because someone or a group is smarter than other on average, that justifies oppression is no different than the notion that we should all be slaves to Bill Gates because he is smart. The notion that IQ is inheritable to some extent, and the enviroment shapes our reproductive patterns and that yet; it won't have an influence on the IQ of a population is absurd, unless we take magic into the ecuation, and say humans don't have evolutionary effects in any way, even in an small way; Unlike animals, which do have them. It would be an act of a supernatural entity, for humans to be impervious to selection unlike the rest of the animal kingdom.

[@tom_curtis]

@@businessproyects2615, firstly, thanks for confirming my comment of 2 months ago. Secondly, while it is true that "...that in a period of a few generations if there's strong selection..." of a highly inheritable traits, you can have a rapid shift in gene frequencies - if the favoured trait is dominant, and if the population is small. However, for large populations, and especially for recessive traits, the rate of selection is very slow. This is shown by the fact that lactose intolerance, which is very strongly selected against, is present in approximately 20% of North Europeans, despite the abundance of lactose in their diet, after thousands of years of that high level of consumption of cows milk. With regard to IQ, no putative mutations responsible for any IQ difference between the races have been identified, let alone has the relative selective advantage of such putative mutations, nor their dominance been determined. However, it is known that the populations involved are very large and have had no genetic bottle necks since humans left Africa; and hence rapid evolution is very unlikely. Thirdly, your assumption that "...cold winters and industrialization constitute a push for higher IQs" is merely that, an assumption - and an implausible assumption. Pre-industrialization, there was no substantial difference between the lifestyles of most Europeans and most Africans, that might lead to a difference in selection advantage for IQ. The idea that cold weather selects for IQ is based on the notion that you have to plan for seasonal abundance, and scarcity - but such seasonal factors also apply in Africa based on the timing of the rains (which is far less consistently distributed through the year than it is in Europe, particularly northern Europe). And for most workers, moving from an agricultural to a factory based employment results in a narrowing of the number of things they need to be competent at; and ergo a reduced selection advantage for IQ. What is more, there is clear evidence, particularly in Europe, that intelligence as a selective advantage, was out weighed by other things. Thus, while about 80% of people with Anglo-Saxon ancestry are descended from King John, Lackland, and about 99.997% of those with Anglo-Saxon ancestry are descended from Edward the Third, with high probability, none are descended from Thomas Aquinas who has a good claim on being the most intelligent European of his age. (That is because Aquinas was a friar.) Most of that "selective" advantage of the monarchs of England comes down entirely to accidents of birth; and are not inheritable. Further, factors such as strength, and charisma have arguably been more important actually inheritable selective factors in determining their large progeny. Kings failed more often from an inability to win battles (hence strength), or maintain the loyalty of their followers (hence Charisma) than from a lack of intelligence. You see the same effect in today's world, where movie stars and athletes are more likely to have many children than are scientists and philosophers. This is particularly important because rapid selection for one beneficial trait is likely to carry with it other deleterious traits; and can result in novel beneficial traits which are not as advantageous as the others becoming extinct in the lineage. Indeed, in general rapid population growth suppresses selective pressure in general, so that evolution for beneficial traits is slower in rapidly growing populations than in static populations. Given that the human population has grown from around 70,000 to just shy of 8 billion in approximately 200 thousand years, there are strong theoretical grounds to think that Darwinian evolution has been slowed in Homo Sapiens, while neutral evolution has been accelerated. In short, your counter argument is entirely spurious, and demonstrates a lack of understanding of how population genetics works (among other things).

[@businessproyects2615]

@@tom_curtis upvoted

[@GAZAMAN93X]

The average person in that area is 6'1? Holy shit.

[@connectronald4720]

Proud munyankore bantu from Uganda 🇺🇬

[@JamesOnen]

Thank you for his highly informative video. I am Ugandan though of Nilotic descent.

[@millevenon5853]

James Onen Hi am a Ugandan as well of bantu descent living in South Africa for 8 years

[@MikhailTabigay]

*"We were kings and many other hierarchical titles from tribes respectively."

[@markhagan6675]

Where does this quote come from?

[@GAZAMAN93X]

Mikhail Tabigay *"We were kings and many other hierarchical titles from tribes respectively"*

[@imposter-982]

We wuz kangz and shiet

[@cpnCarnage666]

i really wish the We Wuz meme would die. Its been persistent for 3 years

[@douglasrugambwa3172]

james Jameson 😂😂😂 love this. Always kills me.

[@JassminaVellucci]

I’m proud to have southern Bantu ancestors.

[@selenadawnwilson1534]

Please continue to educate the world on the beautiful continent of Africa.

[@nnn8502]

Wrong information, This guy is miseducating the world

[@Xyzpklmm]

This guy doesn't know anything

[@shabadoo799]

Your videos are great. Look forward to see your next one.

[@BonganiMagadu]

Bantu and proud. Zulu and Shona the largest bantu groups. Southern Africa and proud

[@thabaningcobo8722]

@@lillianmhanduu Awazi lutho, thula sisi wami

[@yvonnemolapo6616]

How many shona ?

[@hembafantilley-gyado9168]

The Tiv tribe of Nigeria is a Bantu tribe. We can be found in Cameroon as well. We still have similar words with the Zulu. Our history has been handed down about our migration from the Congo

[@acharonim4659]

The tribe of Gad.

[@GrumpyTinashe]

@@kopza79 School me please..how am I not Bantu?

[@nonever5662]

Hi there! I'm from Brazil and I would like to show this video to some friends. But most of them don't undertand english. Can you select the option for subtitles? I can help to translate to portuguese too (google translator is great but sometimes sucks). TY.

[@BrandonChawane]

Brazil = Kongo bantu

[@upendo.3570]

@@BrandonChawane ??

[@r.s1681]

Proud to be a Bantu from Gabon 🇬🇦 from the Fang tribe🌍

[@kiyana7261]

Nous sommes ensemble 🇨🇩💪🏾 je suis bantus Luba

[@daanyaalsamsodien6381]

please do pygmies next

[@Julius1997.]

Daanyaal Samsodien they 🅱 short af tbh fam

[@PreciousDindus]

Daanyaal Samsodien it's on the animal planet channel

[@cardboardbox191]

Are pigmmies a actual genealogy I thought there where a few unconnected tribes of pygmies but it's not really somthing i know about.

[@cardboardbox191]

Nodge Dad presumable you've took the time to check whether it is on the animal channel (bush craft would about fit).

[@PreciousDindus]

Nodge Dad from observing your family on the Nat Geo channel 🖕

[@blackadvertisment6139]

arab slave trade - this subject should be focused

[@qoriiismaris7462]

Ateistyczna Prawica I agree as a Somali my country man were dealing with the Arabs in the slave trade Arabs would go and capture them and we Somalis being on the Indian ocean would ship them off to the rest of the world. Today in my country there are over a million Bantus who were left over after the slave trade we gave them nationality and in return they accepted Islam.

[@blackadvertisment6139]

Adam Abdullahi i guess those bantus had little choice to convert or not? thank you for your comment. i hope somalia will be stabil and prosperous place

[@qoriiismaris7462]

Ateistyczna Prawica Thanks my polish friend for the kind word's. But please keep in mind the Arab slave trade wasn't based on a racial basis. It was more like convert or forever be slaves it was also during war time so the captured combatants would meet their fate as slaves if they didn't willingly convert. Where as the Anglo's treated their slaves like shit even after they changed the names of their slaves to Anglo names & even after converting all of them to Christianity they still treated them like sub humans up until the 70s.

[@Streamernews-j3b]

Adam Abdullahi you're sugar coating the issue Bantus have been treated as shit in somalia it's a sad thing but you can't lie about it although today it's much better they're still being discriminated against

[@amaanreer5311]

actually bantus themselves captured other bantus and sold them to arabs, some bantus got extremely wealthy off this specifically the YAO tribe in tanzania. arabs were looking for cheap labour first they tried ambushing bantu tribes in kenya like the kikuyu and got absolutely thrashed, this is why they targeted more isolated/weak tribes in places like tanzania and malawi, and ofcourse enlisting help from other bantus. Arabs weren't even interested in converting them to islam just cheap labour. the bantu role in the arab slave trade is never talked about, it wouldn't be possible, atleast at that scale, without them.

[@ayubutewele5241]

Tanzania we don’t learn Swahili as second language we learn as first language

[@nenda86]

Ayubu Tewele I am Tanzanian and swahili is my second language after tribal language

[@gilbertwes529]

I'm Kenyan and i disagree kiswahili is second language after our native language

[@scintillam_dei]

I'm Spanish from Honduras and bought a book to learn Swahili. First I gotta learn Kmai 'cause I live in Cambodia (and want to leave).

[@maliaalicia911]

Proud Bantu from angola. I am bakongo❤️

[@mikailm6934]

Mbote sister. Kikongo kia lu zebi? Do you speak kikongo?

[@Africa_In_SA_Podcast]

Me too!

[@marusdod3685]

wow you are beautiful

[@Da90sbaby]

I'm kimbundu from Luanda

[@davidfranklin2975]

I think that your videos are wonderful and so informative. One thing, however, is that the Khoi and the San are distinctly different peoples. They have been linked together for a long time, but the San are physically different from the Khoi, and are mostly hunter-gatherers. The Khoi are hearders and pastoral peoples. They both have languages that have an inordinate amount of click sounds, which did lump them together. Modern DNA studies have shown that they are quite different populations.

[@mr.dr.genius2169]

Where is the guy who said that Mason does eurocentric videos? I want to hear him now.

[@Masaman]

Nobody Important A lot of my videos on Africa will get instantly demonetized by KZbin when I post them. For some I understand if I have a provocative title, but this video had a very innocuous title and thumbnail and was still instantly demonetized. It's official, KZbin hates Africa.

[@mr.dr.genius2169]

Masaman Everything KZbin does is just stupid.

[@LeonKrassenberg]

And when he was doing a string of videos on African ethnicities, some commenters said he 'was obsessed with Africans'. 'Leave us alone' - wrote people with Black faces on their avatars. You can't win with these people.

[@LeonKrassenberg]

@Trillionaire: I meant militant ignorant types. They are more visible (I think that most of them are AA or americanized young Africans) . The same thing can be said about people with Pepe avatars who are here for the lulz and have nothing to bring into discussion except 'muh white IQ' . I'm aware of a diversity of views among Black people.

[@BALLIN315]

I'm Nilotic....we've been living around the Nile river.....do us next

[@renegade2318]

First Name Last Name nilotes originally reaided in the Nile Valley in northern Sudan but slowly got pushed back by the persians, arabs etc until they finally dispersed from gezira, Sudan thousands of years ago turning into the ethnicities they are today.

[@ecstasywater7923]

First Name Last Name He already did. Google it.

[@ecstasywater7923]

anonymous You were there? 😑 stop spreading these unsubstantiated ramblings.

[@ecstasywater7923]

anonymous Bit of an overreaction don’t you think? Go on then, give us those sources. also I don’t talk (....) because I didn’t grow up around profanity. What makes you “know what you’re talking about” ?

[@renegade2318]

Ecstasy Water Well whatever shithole you grew up around certainly didn't stop you from insulting people who have info you find doubtful. You're pathetic.

[@eberhard1991]

As a Bantu I'm proud of our mother language Kiswahili and the conquest of Southern and East Africa made by my ancestors. The only group that made conquest in Africa. With love from Namibia ❤ vantu va nkondo ✊✊

[@KingOfAfrica90]

Conquest? Kiswahili in Namibia?

[@kawanamathias7548]

Bantu are the majority in Namibia and their languages is very close to Kiswahili. I can understand over 50% of Kiswahili words though I set foot in east Africa.

[@lolo-hp3bt]

your mother language is swahili? how

[@imani3975]

Ati Swahili 😭😂😂😂

[@BrandonChawane]

We're the children of Kongo, southern africa is Kongo kingdom

[@alphonsiamik6032]

Some people are only good at copying and pasting other peoples ideas and hypothesis. The video is basically a photocopy of the greenberg hypothesis of the bantu expansion from the border between Nigeria and Cameroon and the guthrie hypothesis of bantu expansion from Katanga in DRC congo and zambia. So what are your ideas, please tell us what we have never heard of and stop copying and pasting other peoples ideas. The border between Cameroon and nigeria as well as Katanga DRC are just hypothetical bantu homelands and not actual homelands. The bantu speakers are spread out and found almost everywhere in central, southern and eastern Africa. So why it the border between cameroon and nigeria considered as bantu homeland when there are few bantu speakers in the region. The bantu speakers are mostly found at southern Cameroon. Why are the nilotes not thought as having expanded from these region and west Africa as they are also found there. The fact is there was never an expansion out of west Africa, but there were migrations to west Africa from Sudans(North and south), Chad, sahel, Ethiopia and east Africa to west Africa. As far as origins of Africans are concerned, there is nobody who originated in west Africa, southern Africa and the western half of central Africa. The people originated in sudan, chad, sahel (ancient sahara), Ethiopia, east Africa and east central Africa. The west Africans have diverse origins. some w.Africans like Mande speakers and related groups are descended from ancient saharan inhabitants, some are from chad(north central Africa) some are from Ethiopia and the two sudan (north and south). some of the nilo-saharans if not most are also descended from ancient sahara inhabitants. The nilotes are from upper nile valley, Ethiopia and east Africa. The cushites originated in the horn of Africa that is Ethiopia, somalia, djibouti and eritrea. The bantus are also from east africa although they claim to have come from further north. The pgymies tribes are from east central Africa which encompasses modern Rwanda, Burundi, east DR congo and western Uganda. The pgymies especially mbuti are believed to have given rise to the san/bushmen and the khoikhoi are from east africa. So in conclusion, much of Africa was not originally inhabited since there were fewer people then. Much of Africa was covered by the equatorial rain forest. As you can see, most African groups spread from eastern Africa to other regions of Africa and the pgymies and bushmen as well as other related hunting groups spread from east central Africa to other regions. So what do you mean that the bantu speakers permanently changed the face of Africa? It can be great if you can clarify what you that the bantu speakers changed the face of Africa. Some of you seem to stupidly think that east African native is equal to somalis and other cushitic horn of Africans which is very wrong. The bantu speaking populations is indigenous to eastern, central, and southern Africa where they are mostly found. You cannot come out of the blues and start daydreaming that the bantu speakers expanded from the border between nigeria and cameroon and you are not even able to explain how the bantu speakers settled in those other regions and the rationale that you used to decide the border between Nigeria and Cameroon as the homeland and not the other regions where this population is found. The European scholars themselves have failed to explain their hypothesis, so who are you to tell us that the bantu speakers expanded from the border of nigeria and cameroon when it is not even your original idea? For instance, the term bantu refers to a group of tribes that speak bantu languages. The tribes are referred to as bantu because that is the term most of these tribes use to refer to people. It is just a linguistic marker and not an ethnicity. An alien cannot come to Africa and pick on some tribes native to eastern, southern and central Africa and conclude they are from the border between nigeria and cameroon simply because most people in the region resemble to bantu speaking tribes. That is simply unrealistic and irrational. Just come up with your own ideas and stop copying ideas from european scholars and this is what we call plagiarism. From some of your videos, you seem to foolishly claim that certain phenotypes belong to the nilote, bantu and cushites which is very wrong. There is no such a thing as bantu phenotypes, cushite (horn of Africa) phenotypes or nilote phenotypes. All types of phenotypes are evenly distributed among all African groups and are found globally in Africa and there are no unique phenotypes in Africa. For instance, just because the bantu tribes speaking similar languages, it does not mean that they must all look the same outwardly and the same applies to the other African groups. The bantu speakers are the most varied in terms of phenotypes in Africa compared to other groups for example. If you are using these irrational and unreasonable logic you use in some of your videos if not most, then you are very wrong. The bantu speakers and west Africans for instance are not the same people and do not all have the same genes. There is also no such a thing as Niger-congo and most west Africans are not bantus. There is no way you claim that west Africans expanded to other regions of Africa when they are not even bantus. The west Africans themselves never originated in west Africa and have very diverse origins. The way you assess various African groups especially bantu speakers is irrational and unreasonable. In some of your video you unprofessionally claim that the nilotic communities are your favorite and should get some attention. This is antagonizing the nilotic communities with other communities with whom they peaceful live with. You do not make documentary on a group of people because they are your favorite and you should not state in your video that they are your favorite. That is simply unprofessional. Some of you non-Africans then to think that if you said that certain groups of Africans are your favorite it will be a big deal, but that is never the case. That is not probably how Africans from Africa feel about you and maybe it is only the African American person who may see being associated with a non- African as a big deal. The video sounds great, but you should come up with your own ideas and tell us something we have not heard of.

[@BlubberInJeKontx]

The bantu speakers are not found in Southern Cameroon please. Always trying to put people in boxes. We don't EVER call ourselves 'bantu' let alone the language that we speak.

[@nomadnebirir4708]

Cushites are native east africans. Archaeology and ancient writings prove this. Ever heard of megalithic cushites? Plus East Africa is mostly savannah. Best suited for herders. Bantus are a recent appearance.

[@gregorybrooks1888]

@@BlubberInJeKontx Boxes ? What kind of boxes ? I suggest you seek more information on Aria nasi Research website. Do you have any idea whom the Bantus' really are ? If not, do some research before commenting.

[@BlubberInJeKontx]

@@gregorybrooks1888 Ehm I don't need to do any research on 'bantus'. It's a white man's invention. And even if it's true my people are still not 'bantus'. We don't call ourselves that and never did. Now this shit is from like a century ago and you're still responding lol. Stfu damn

[@LICKMYNYNE]

Even the dogon said that they came from the east

[@rounrobin7258]

Amazingly correct information.... Being a Bantu myself, I got to learn even more about myself.

[@rounrobin7258]

Lewis Taylor very correct

[@lwazimorris4973]

Stop lying you not black.

[@RQDK]

The informations on this video is not correct.

[@jefmweds]

I am always proud when I travel to DRC, Malawi and/meet any Bantu person, we always have these words which are similar in a all tribes. Any house you enter in a village, the way some things are done...you identify with them. It tells you that, we were one some time back. Love from Kenya.

[@denismwiti]

May God be with Africa...let's arise

[@stlouisix3]

African people must enter the Catholic Church

[@lanawallace2964]

Imhotep Genius us diaspora people with our European names forced on to us, have EVERY RIGHT to be PROUD of Africa too and want to see her rise! It’s not our fault our ancestors were human trafficked away from their lands...they were VICTIMS of the Europeans!

[@jermarwilliamson8165]

All are different diverse ethnicities like chinese and japanese or english and ittalians

[@Melanin_Move]

Well as a Jamaican I’ve inherited 16% SE Bantu. And I even know the tribes according to GEDMATCH. Some tests will say I’m of course West African, but Kenyan, Central, South, or East African. We are taught that we are West but DNA tests are saying beyond what we’ve been told. One of the best records are the slave ship records to check. Nice vid.

[@JcDizon]

Kenyan? I thought Jamaicans and other blacks in the Americas only descended from west and central Africans

[@mercurialman6255]

Jc Dizon Most are but we also have Bantu East African ancestry as will in varying degrees. The Portuguess brought over east Africans.

[@peacekenya7537]

Interesting. You might have Swahili or other coastal bantu ancestors then.

[@Melanin_Move]

Peace Kenya yeah. My parents are Jamaican and they descended from the rebels (Maroons). In fact, my mom, father’s brother, sister, and brother were tested and came up will approximately fully African with the SE Bantu round the teens. I had to research, so I looked into the slave ship records and saw Africans from ALL OVER were shipped. They even had some from Cape Hope, shockingly. So we are PREDOMINATELY West African but I came up with East and unbelievably a whole bunch of tribes. Some were Lesotho, Tswana, Luo, Lemba, to name some. I even had 9% Levant😳. Could explain our running technique😂. I wish I could show the results here. Very interesting to me and quite a surprise.

[@JLDReactions]

@JC Dizon Some West African tribes have an east Africa/East Sudanic origin. Different ethnic have been moving and mixing for 1000's of years.

[@lionofjudah7627]

I’m a Bantu speaker from Zambia. Yes we do have similar words across the Bantu region. E.g. Kumi means “10” in most Bantu languages. Thanks for the video. It explains what I always want to explain to people here in USA who group all Africans into one category. We r diverse, but the Bantu r very different from west Africans who r very popular here due to the proximity of west Africa to the us

[@bensonmuriithi1781]

In kikuyu, it is ikumi

[@bensonmuriithi1781]

Kiswahili it is kumi

[@ScumbagKonflict]

In most south African and nguni languages its "Shumi". We are one ❤️ What's the word for meat in your languages? In SA Bantu Languages its "nama/nyama"

[@berthekabwe871]

@@ScumbagKonflict nyama means meat in bemba and nyanja languages of Zambia.

[@tloutlou2655]

It's Lesome in Sotho.

[@berjoxhn5142]

forgot to mention the genocide they commited

[@Cobbido]

lots of genocides, various Khoi and San related lineages were completely wiped out, races that were unique and had been genetically isolated for over two hundred thousand years. If it wasn't for the Bantu expansion we would have a lot more different kinds of humans around today, many different Pygmy and Pygmy related groups as well.

[@sublimnl1]

You have no proof of that unlike the proof we have of your seed of 👹 genociding entire tribes from every continent you ever visited. Tasmania Australia Namibia Congo USA the list goes on. Mass holocausts everywhere your species go.

[@Ibrozanaaji21345]

Yeah just like hutu vs tutsi

[@keshi5541]

basically most were wiped out and absorbed. Very sad to see.

[@NgosaChola-jo8pr]

​@@Cobbidothat's called assimilation last time I checked the only people that started a genocide against the khoisan were the Germans in Namibia who also killed a bantu group it's called the nama and herero genocide

[@youflaw3285]

Bro where have you been?! Your channel I can’t get enough of it!!

[@Heart2HeartwithAlbertaMuembo]

Thank you so much!! I'm a very proud Bantu!

[@Ingrid_Sanz12]

Thank you for this video. I did the ancestry dna test and most of my background is of Bantun descent. I did. Not know this I found out last year, funny thing is that my daughter is 14 and I gave her a Swahili name... I guess my soul always knew .

[@254react]

It's Bantu meaning people in plural & Muntu meaning person not Bantun.

[@Ingrid_Sanz12]

@@254react Thank you for letting me know.

[@mulusawalter779]

Which Name my sister. Come visit your origin

[@mulusawalter779]

What is her Swahili name

[@Ingrid_Sanz12]

@@mulusawalter779 I named her Shani

[@rasapplepipe]

In Colombia the people of San Basilio de Palenque in Bolivar speak a bantu language with lots of lone words from medieval Portugués ,Spanish and indegenous Colombian.

[@JcDizon]

You mean the Spanish creole called Palenquero?

[@rasapplepipe]

Jc Dizon it's mostly bantu and is inteligible to people in Guinea Bisau.Yes Palenquero.

[@rasapplepipe]

The Guardian of Truth . Guinea Bisau the slaves were sold by the Portugués hence the Portugués lone words.

[@substatikvideos]

No lo sabía, que interesante

[@isaacm3409]

Thanks for this info

[@onebuc5874]

This is interesting because my parents took the DNA test and they are mostly Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo,Mali and Southern Bantu people.

[@SusanKilgroe]

tom brady sucks

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Honestly, I've always found khoisans a cooler group. Don't really know why though.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

can you do a video dedicated to the khoisan peoples actually?

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

madagascans are really cool aswell

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

Maybe because they are completely different than the congoids. They/we were much lighter in skin colour (very yellow)

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

J .dV what the fuck does skin colour have to do with it? the khoisan are cool because of their effects on our understanding on genetics and even how consonants are affected by migrations.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

madagascans are cool because their history is pretty cool (migration-wise)

[@amaanreer5311]

if you want to know how eastern and south africa was before the bantu expansion read the new study "reconstructing prehistoric african population structure" by P Skoglund, it was basically hadza/mota like people,khoisans, and south-cushites (dates 3100 yrs ago).

[@amaanreer5311]

Vince the superb truth hurts doesnt it, i'll trust ancient dna testing over whatever you have to say. and i didn't say cushites were in south africa, south africa = khoisan land, cushites though were as far south as tanzania (south east africa)

[@vincethesuperb2746]

No they weren't. The iraqw which is the only cushite group in tanzania found the likes of maasai and other bantu groups already settled in their land.

[@vincethesuperb2746]

The only people eastern bantus in kenya found were pygmies who were related to the twa of the rwanda and the congolese pygmies. They were absorbed by the bantus.

[@amaanreer5311]

Vince the superb like i said they found a 3100 yr old south cushite genome in tanzania which predated the bantu expansion in the area. masaai themselves are part cushitic not full nilotes, iraqw and other now EXTINCT south cushite tribes were in the area before bantus.

[@MrSheriffShaf]

Its fact that Cushite people lived in south east Africa before Bantus

[@christianboekhout3475]

I’m confused how is the Bantu expansion European propaganda? This happened. And it lead to the decimation of Pygmy and Khoi-San cultures. That’s just a fact, that’s how human history goes. I don’t see what is so offensive about this video. Also, I don’t think he ever claims that Bantu peoples are one singular ethnic group, but rather he acknowledges that the language, culture, and a large part of the genetics all have a common origin. It’s like saying Slavic people or Germanic people even there are obviously multiple ethnicities within those branches.

[@paulmburu7234]

im a Kenyan and from Kikuyu tribe (Bantu) we are the Greatest, largest and most educated tribe in EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

[@whatkenyan7684]

Tiga urimu.

[@254react]

I'd say Luos are the Most educated and Largest single tribe is East Africa. They spread across Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania.

[@KijanaOmondi]

I think the Bantus followed Chad through Sudan to Uganda while going South to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Katanga and Angola, because of the massive forest in the Congo region. They formed strong kingdoms that would later conquer southwards and when their was overpopulation they came northwards in two groups, the great lakes people from the lower Congo and the lower south people to the coastal regions. The great lakes languages have a connection as well as the ones in the coastal regions both of Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.

[@イタチウチハ-v3z]

Sudan have nothing to do with bantu 😒

[@Qhawe_Jameson.]

saz who? all africans can trace thier origins to the horn of africa, ethiopia. sudan was everyones play ground at some point.@@イタチウチハ-v3z

[@gabrielinague3026]

Really nice to hear about African history, something effectively erased from the Western World.

[@nachannachle2706]

Fun fact: As a born and bred African, I learnt more about African cultures, countries and languages when living in West London. Europe as a multicultural urban hub has some good aspects to it. :)

[@gabrielinague3026]

Guys, I'm talking about the rule, not the exceptions. In the most populated countries it's not like that at all, like in the US and Brazil, that are the countries that received the highest number of enslaved African people.

[@gabrielinague3026]

@Luka indeed, we can't erase something that doesn't exist like the African History in the Western Basic Education System.

[@gabrielinague3026]

@Luka I'm afraid we are not taught a fair share at all about African History in Western schools. Africans have pre-colonial wrighting for sure, their own creation (Ethiopian Ge'ez, fro examplr, or even in arabic systems, but they do. But maybe our ignorance about it is just a proof of what my point is about. People barely know that Africa is a continent and not a country, now imagine telling them that Ancient Egypt an ancient African civilization, and that the Black King Masa Musa was the richest men in human history. Ask randomly what people on the streets of Paris, New York or London can tell us their impressions about the Bantu Expansion. This neglection is understandable because of the imperialism (that is still fully working). We need more, way more, especially in countries where a great part of theit people is made of the descendants of a recently enslaved people.

[@gabrielinague3026]

@Luka Sub-saharan Africa has 300.000 years of human history; is the most geneticly diverse parte of the world; most modern developed nation sucked the most of their natural and human resources in recent history; and the metal from the hardware of your cell phone or notebook you are texting right now comes from a chain of exploited work of their natural and human resources (still there). I'd consider a little longer before saying it's history 'hasn't contributed much for shaping the modern world'.

[@Monaedeezy]

Yes!! Please continue to explore African tribes. This is awesome! Great job!

[@Seth9809]

Thank you for covering this and having such good images for it as well. Despite that this is required knowledge for a teaching exam, this information never came up in any of my course work.