Bantous

One names Bantous (what means the Human ones in the Kongo language) whole of people speaking some four hundred related languages known as bantoues , present in Africa of the Gabon to the the Comoros of west in is and of the Kenya to the Namibia of north in the south. These Ethnie S very varied covers all the southern part of the Africa, where only the Bochimans and the Hottentots have different source languages. With the difference in the latter which are respectively Chasseurs-cueilleurs, stockbreeder S and both wandering S, Bantous are Agriculteur S and Sédentaire S. They also acquired the control of the iron. These projections enabled them to colonize their territories over one period of approximately four thousand years.

By driving back the nomads, they locally absorbed some of their Phonème S, like the click characteristic of the Langues khoïsan.

History

Bantous probably come from the Cameroun and the south-east of the Nigeria. Towards -2000 they started to extend their territory in the Equatorial forest of central Africa. Later, about the year 1000, took place a second faster phase of expansion towards the East. Bantous were mélèrent then with the indigenous groups and constituted new businesses. At the 16th century and 17th century, the populations bantoues of Eastern Africa moved towards the South, thorough by the warriors Masaïs come from North. When Jan van Riebeeck approached with the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, it did not meet there populations bantoues. But, thereafter, more and more of Bantous moved towards the South of the continent and gradually pushed back the people Khoïsan which lived there.

From which did -2000 come Bantous before ? Probably African migrations of the east (Koush, Punt) mainly towards the west, then towards the south (south-eastern, south-western, center). Vestiges bantous, at the edge of the lake Upemba, to Sanga, give many information on these migrations.

Culture

Their languages, which present many similarities, constitutes the cultural element most recognizable of these people. These companies are matriarcales for the majority. They are founded on the clannish and family pillar. The respect towards the old ones of the clan or the tribe is total and implies a complete tender. In parallel, of the organizations or brotherhoods, which can be inter-clannish, even inter-nuns, allow reports/ratios of equal footing with other individuals. Thus, there exist brotherhoods of hunting, of laughing, etc These brotherhoods are very often used as loophole with a too heavy clannish universe and which leaves little place to the individual.

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