Am a Bantu from Mukongo tribe and am from Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩. We have been told by our parents from the early age that we are Bantu people
Here in Kenya we learnt about these classifications in Schools. We never heard it from our parents. We learnt that Bantu is classified based on 'ntu' sound or other variations close to ntu when referring to a person or persons.e.g ndu, nhu. In Kikuyu we say mundu for one person, andu for people.
I'm a east African Bantu, from the coast of Kenya to be precise, but I refuse to agree with you that all bantus migrated from the west or Central, We know our history, it has been passed through from generation to generation. The europeans calls it a myth but I believe our ancestors were not fools to pass their history to our great, great grand parents and from them to our generation. I don't speak for all East African bantus, but I would speak for some of the tribes from the coast of Kenya and Tanzania. We originated from the east, before we settled in Kenya and Tanzania we used to settle in a place called Shungwaya, Shungwaya is believed to be somewhere around Somalia and Ethiopia, Another question is, if man originated in the east, then moved to the north and later to the west, central and south respectively. How come you tell us that all of us originated from the west, Yeah I agree some of the East and South African bantus might have migrated from Congo, Cameroon or Benin, but I'm 100% sure that it's not all of us. it's not all of us, it doesn't make sense 😂😂😂 Some of us are natives here. White man was trying to devide us with this propaganda so that he could still from us. Telling us that we don't belong here that we migrated from somewhere else jus like them. That Bantus are visitors in east/south Africa. Some even call us invaders 🙄. Don't be fools my brothers and sisters, they's no single country in the subsaharan Africa that did not have Bantu that originated from there.
Obviously you are native but part of your ancestry comes from people who moved from central Africa, it's not a shame. Those saying you aren't native because of that are dumb since migration is part of all ethnicities. Europeans for example have ancestry from indo europeans from central Asia, Neolithic farmers from the middle east and so forth. Modern eastern bantu(especially Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) have also ancestry from cushites, nilotes, native hunter gatherers(hadza, sandawe, aari type), sometimes arab and indian in the coast, pygmy... It's well established now as genetic studies show that
You came to an interesting conclusion. I don't think the Bantu migration negates the fact that East Africans are indigenous to the area. Technically all humans are invaders to a certain degree, as homo sapient are believed to have developed in east Africa, as you have noted. Civilizations grow, move, merge and sadly die out, the population of today is very different from the populations of ancient times. People today are essentially the product of conquest and appropriation. I do agree that not all East Africans are of that Bantu migration however, the likeliest conclusion is that Bantu cultures blended with the indigenous people who absorbed most of the Bantu culture and languages. Keep in mind this migration is suggested to have occurred in the BCE's, so much is lost from time. African belong to the African the Europeans put up those boarders. Stay blessed brother.
@@mikailm6934 Yeah I agree with you 100% , what I don't like to hear is Arabs and Europeans telling us that we're visitors in east Africa, but I've never hard them saying nilotes and Cushites are visitors in the West, what they're trying to do is what we call "Anti-Bantu". The sad part is that some of our Bantu brothers and sisters are brainwashed and they agree with the text book history , which is not 100% true, Thank God we the people from this part of East Africa Know our history, atleast some of us know
@@rebels0ulja I really understand all your points. I myself am fang beti from cameroon and we are called bantu maybe because we live in south Cameroun north Gabon Guinea congo est. But our arrival on that region was on the nineteenth century. We know that because we met white colonisers o our way over to the south they first though that we were akang since we were only gangs of warriors so they called us a wrong name ( phaouin) up to now we have problems to tell the people who we are and where we came from originally. What I emphasise here is that we were all migrants at the biguinning, we had many locations out languages and names changed all throughout our journeys I am not sure that 10 generations back my language was exactly like today. The so called bantu may have moved eastward but your family coming from somewhere else did mixt with these proto bantu to produce who we are today. You see in my langage we say " we came from qoba ou kwa" which is today that sentence means literally today .. We cam a long way. Qoba meaning old and our old is Soudan or we came from where the sun rises even we translate the name Ethiopia in nti djop ( all mighty sun) and so forth. Many names in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia Tanzania are tbe names of my tribe like Obama, and I also heard that idi amin actual name ANGO is also ours... Look at the symbolism in thought that we share in common. The leopard represents the power or the chief and we call it the same name Nze, nzui nsi, nsi, simba. So I also find that theory unclear Cameroon was certainly populated but not by us we came and mixt with those who lived there before and the Pygmies too and today it s impossible to find who owns the language that we speak. The Pygmies can claim it. To me the native Pygmies, the San, ond the nilotes are the first human creatures .and bantu and coushites came after them. In fact we are their progénitures. It s no science what I m saying but for the phenotypes .. Reveal whet is inside a person, bantu are various phenotypes coushites too. So we are a mixture of these first human and the ethnic groups and languages were formed later. Bantu is a word that no one use to call his people. The fang bêti refused Islam from the east to central Africa this is history. So when white folks divided the ethnic groups he could say that we were chadic or nilote if they found us in Ou refuge in the south of Chad. There are differences between us but these differences grew with time and the culture of the coloniser. In Cameroon we are bilingual with a predominance of French. So I think as a summary that we are no tribe or ethnic but clans ( broad families)
I stil don't think Bantu came from West Africa and that's just my opinion because even in most oral history Bantu trace their origins in east africa plus it would make sense if they would've moved from east to west.
@@Akhona3 nice point I have point that's different from yours and the reason why I think Bantus are from east not central is because alot Bantu kingdoms would often go from east to central suggesting that that while they did have homes in east africa they would also go back to central plus it wouldn't make sense if bantus were from central or west africa because most bantu kingdoms expanded from east to west not the other way around. And people also forget that bantu weren't just farmers they were also fisherman in fact fishing was even greater than farming they were also herders in some instances as wel. But yeah I'd rather belive in the point you made than that whole Bantu came from West Africa nonsense. Plus these so called nilotic, Bantu, cushitic and so on are titles given by Europeans at an attempt to separate African African unity and yes while some African may have Asian an or Arab decent in the end we are all African and it's important to be proud of your culture but not to the point where you fight your own neighbor.
@@dragothunderstar6526 there is no pan african unity or identity, people have different tribes and cultures. Nilotics have their own ethnic metagroup who are tall dark and skinny. Cushitics are between berbers and nilotics and are afro asiatic speakers with more in common with north Africa then most of black Africa. West Africans and bantus are both average to medium tall heigh, muscular or stocky and brown/yellow to darkskin but not nilotic dark. Genetic evidence has proven along with linguistic and cultural evidence that bantus originate from cameroon.
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 I'm sorry man but oral history just doesn't prove that it's even written in the Tanzanian library that many of the tribes originated in Tanzania and spread out to neighboring east Africa than south than central than west.
Bro my roommate back in Stellenbosch University was Ugandan and I got to say I was suprised that we have similar sounding words which actually mean the same thing as my own birth language 'IsiZulu' from the Zulu tribe.... That was Dooooooooope
Im from Uganda from tribe of banyankore we believe to have migrated from South Africa Every time im listening to traditional music from South Africa i get emotional sometimes I cry and sleep peacefully My friends are always asking i have relatives or root zulu people
I have often wondered why most Africans use the same word for meat, Nyama or Nama. From Hausa in West Africa to isiXhosa in South Africa. Check it out!
@@mambelelembambe4255 I say this because most of my DNA comes from Kongo, Cameroon, Angola region Infact, the first African Americans were from the Kingdom of Ndongo
@@mambelelembambe4255 We in the diaspora whether AA, Afro Caribbean, or Afro Brazilian are an amalgamation of multiple West African and Central African tribes… Afro Brazilians are mostly Bantu but also have West African DNA from Yoruba, Igbo, and Ghana. Afro Carribeans and African Americans are mostly West African (Igbo, Yoruba, Akan, Senegambian) but also have a strong percentage of Bantu from Congo. Every African American has Bantu DNA, you will not find one that doesn’t.
Which tribes in West Africa are Bantu today ??? Our own oral history as the Shona in Zimbabwe says we came from Tanga Nyika which in Shona means the place where the earth began ... I have heard and account from a great spirit medium of the Shona who traces our migration from Sudan Ethiopia and ancient origin to Mesopatamia
@@hicallmefrank I'm mentioning MY Ancestral clans sthandwa, I don't have any Ndebele blood. In fact my clans have many beefs with maTebele lol. And "Khoi" is covered under baTwa, the original founders of our land 💜
@@nokumira really? All the Nguni tribes have kwaal with the Ndebeles, DAMN? See, I don't believe in the whole "Khoi were the founders of our land" idea. Using that logic, if the colonisers came from East, they would've came across the bantu, primarily the Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele if it was before mfecane but only Zulus if it was after). then what? would we have the right to claim that we were the founders of this land and not the Khoi? That idea is unfair.
In West Africa there is no language related to Bantu,but East, southern, southern west and central ethnic languages are closely related.When we speak we use common words.
@@morganbabu3105 lol on that I agree with you there are bantu languages in west Africa but very few. I don't know what kind or narrative the maker of the video was trying to push. Put a lot of Africans in the comment sanctions aren't putting up with the nonsense which is great to see.
@@dragothunderstar6526 The maker of the video was trying to push a narrative that excludes the origin of Bantu. This is a false narrative. The bantu originated from South East Nigeria into Camaroon and then into Congo and EAST Africa. How can you exclude the origin of a people from the People. Clearly the homeland of the Bantu started in Nigeria as is obvious from the video.
@@romulenrising bro you’re spouting the same nonsense as the video also all Africans originate from east Africa’s it’s been proven already. Also Bantu came from Tanzania then they spread out to South Africa then central Africa and from their they went all the way to west Africa. This has already been proven. Also there’s no archeological proof that shows that Bantu come from Nigeria. Also most of west Africa is mostly, Africans of Cushitic, stock especially Nigeria itself. Few countries like Gabon and others are primarily Bantu.
@@dragothunderstar6526and that supported by archeological discoveries,that oldest human remains were found in Tanzania,this will make sense to claims that original of all Africans not only Bantus is Tanganyika then spreads to rest of Africa just said
So sad to have a brother repeating what he has been taught by his colonial masters. The Bantu never migrated but spread because Africa was and has always been their homeland. They also lived in modern day Middle East. That was all their territory before European invasion.
The Bantu first originated around the Benue- Cross rivers area in southeastern Nigeria, Archeological and linguistic evidence suggests that Cushitic speakers dominated significant areas of East Africa before the Bantu expansion in 1,000 BC to 1 AD. Later on, the Nile (Nilotic) people penetrated the region as well. That's why you today find so many cross-over phenotypes and facial features among the East African, and tribes around the great lake region. They are heavily mixed with Southern Cushites (Pre-Boranas, Somalis) Tutsis, Himas, Maasais, Datoga and Iraqw in Tanzania are clearly showing affinities genetically with the Afara, Bejas, Somalis and Oromos.
@@PierreJJ. dont talk if you dont know anything about east Africa this proves you dont know anything the Himas were never Tutsi in both their oral history and archeological findings the Himas of Tanzania have always been bantu even neighboring countries know that its only been very recently till tutsis started identifying as Hima. And the Bantu first encountered the bushment and pygmies after spreading out further into east then south central and west africa. No east African bantu kingdom has origins in west africa they all originate from east africa more specifically the areas around what is now Tanzania. Oral history can be a strong thing especially when multiple tribes across multiple countries in EA share the same origin.
@@PierreJJ. Speak for yourself moron we dont share the same language or culture. while we do have some similarities they are preeety far apart. We know our own history and I admire some the west african empires some the very best to have ever existed. But Bantu dont originate from west africa my friend. The nilotic speak tribes migrated from the areas around sudan into east africa and some areas of central africa. The bantu were already there in east africa. And even historical evidence suggests that they themselves are newcomers to east africa.
Sefania 3:10-11 [10]Maana toka nchi iliyo mbali na mito ya Kushi, waniombao dua, yaani, binti za watu wangu waliotawanyika, wataleta matoleo yangu. [11]Siku ile hutatahayarikia matendo yako yote uliyoniasi; maana hapo nitawaondoa watu wako wanaotakabari na kujivuna, wasiwe kati yako, wala hutatakabari tena katika mlima wangu mtakatifu.
The Most High knows where his chosen people are they are the Bantus. No matter how mankind try to make us lost by scattering us in all four corners of the earth. In due time he will bring us back home. WE ARE THE CHOSEN ONES
This bantu migration theory or story has been repeated over and over again, but I think white man originated this theory. To be honest, if the cradle of human kind is East Africa, then Bantus did not come from Cameroon or Congo, they were already here in East Africa, I am not disputing that some groups of people did indeed migrate in the region, but it is completely false to say that all Bantu speaking people migrated here.
@@LabanBwire The Bushmen are the indigenous peoples of southern Africa. Largely hunter-gatherers, their territory spans several nations and they have called the region home for tens of thousands of years.
@@spymasterk4873 hahaha. You make me laugh. Ethiopia may have a history, but Ethiopians, lacked knowledge of assimilation, expansion , exploration and cultural exhibition,which were core to the Bantu migration. Bantus is the most spoken about compared with other African tribes including Abyssinia , which is modern day Ethiopia. Bantu land constitutes over 50% of Africa's total land mass.
Thank you for your Academic and Scholarly work. We learnt this in school and I accepted it as Fact, until I spent 6 months in the DRC. I went to the jungle as in Conglo Rain Forest many times to see with my own eyes this marvel and every time we had to travel by boat to reach the Jungle as it was impassible. You cannot walk 1 kilometre through the jungle with having to clear your way with a panga as vegetation is everywhere, not withstanding all the predator's, snakes, and bugs that would end your life in minutes. European Scholars have pushed this theory for years, and the problem I have with it is I know from my experience that you cannot walk through the jungle in the way they have described. It is impossible. One major obstacle are the hundreds of rivers that you will have to cross. These are not small rivers. These are mighty rivers some of them a kilometer or more wide. This would put any migration journey on halt for a very long time, so that is wny I disagree with this migration from the Cameroon. Another reason I find this Cameron migration to be inaccurate is why would the Bantu travel away from the the lushes on the rain forest to the dry Savannahs. This doesn't make much sense. A more logical explanation is that the Bantu originated from East Africa and spread across Africa. We have a clear open highway from East Africa all the way to Southern Africa that was used by traders for years and that Shaka Zulu used to expand his empire Northwards as far as Tanzania.To get to the Congo Forest, theese Bantu would have travelled to Uganda then Rwanda and crossed in to the Congo from Rwanda. Another possible route was Southern Tanzania and then to southern DRC. This is a logical route as this entire region speaks Swahili as the routes I have mentioned were used for centuries by traders (including Slave Hunters) for the Arab Slave Trade on the Swahili coast of East Africa. The Uganda route may have made it to Cameroon but not by way of the Jungle. Entering Central Africa Republic then Congo Brazzaville to finally make it to Cameroon. this would have been a difficult journey, however, in my opinion this was plausible.
True I don't know why we believe the narrative pushed by colonial masters and yet they make alot of visible eras about us even today and they push them because doing real research is difficult for them ,but I noticed the Angola people of ancient Kongo ,use the same words like east Africans like Nyoka ,ngombe I was so impressed they use the same words in Colombia where our people went just great maybe there was constant contact due to trade among our people coz the Kongo kingdom was big
@Dan the Revolutionary ..it makes.a lot practical sense to ignore the Caucasian Theory of Bantu migration from West to East.. The Caucasian always Advanced these Noxious theories so that their own Recent 350 year migration can be accommodated into BANTU AFRICA..
In Australia they did a documentary called "DNA Nation" with Ernie Dingo n Ian Thorpe etc and uncle Ernie Dingo is Australian indigenous but it was proved that his ancestors over 14000 generation on his mom side took him back to Ethiopia
I"m South African and speak most Bantu languages in our country. We call meat "Nama" or "Nyama". It would be interesting to know what others call it (meat). I know that the Hausas in West Africa also call it "Nama".
What other Hausa words are similar to South African words? For instance, what is PEOPLE in Hausa? We can't just take one word and run with it. Give more examples of words we have in common. Otherwise that could just be a coincidence or an example of a borrowed word
The studies done by the University of Witwatersrand has manage to link Bantu in South Africa and surrounding countries to East Africa and Grate Lake region.
the idea of bantus migrating from west africa has been debunked.no traces of bantu traditions , languages and cultures exist today except among central east and southern africans.
Wrong. The closest languages to bantu are in Nigeria(Ibibio, efik, annang..) and the diversity in languages are higher over there meaning the bantu came from there and expanded as a subset of these languages(benue congo)
@@mikailm6934 Nah this is BS, doesn't it make sense to you that provably those lonely three tribes you've mentioned ventured northwards when everybody else was in the Kongo and southern Africa? Does it make sense to you that 97% of the tribes can move away and live very little behind? There's no archeological evidence to support this out of west Africa BS. We came from Kongo up towards north east Africa.
@@njavwa2886 They arent the only ones, ive only mentioned few examples. It's not just their existence that shows it but they also are the most divergent linguistically so the migration began around their area to expand further south, not the other way around. If you didn't know, finding archeological sites is harder in tropical areas because the climate deteriorates these evidences way more than in cold or desertic areas. Archaeologists have had more troubles in India or Amazonia too because of that. Several findings were still found and t complete them, linguistic and genetics help. All the linguistic and genetic studies point to an initial dispersion around the Nigerian/Cameroonian border. If you remove non bantu admixture , the closest population to Southern Bantu are those in eastern Africa then in Central Africa(Zambia, Angola,Congo.) then those above Congo forest(Northern Congo, Cameroon) and southern Nigerians come after. It perfectly fits the linguistic classification of the Bantu languages as a subgroup of the Benue Congo languages of Nigeria . There is no more debates about that, we can dispute the details of it but that's all. North East Africa is vague and there is no archeological findings, genetical or linguistical links showing that, i expected more coming from someone denying all the proofs of the Bantu expansion
@@mikailm6934 Okay my link to further counter evidence is being deleted. But check out Bantu Origins of Ancient Egypt by Cheikh Diop. It will point to where we came from as a collective Bantu and non bantu. We came south others west.
The question of Bantu migration is still up for discussion even now. The stories we have been taught in class do not add up from what our grandparents tell us and yet these are the keepers of our history. The common linguistic characteristic of the Bantu language shows they were once one big community that thrived. shared cultural practices like every born son have to be circumcised is a common practice by all Bantus, dowry to the daughter's parents is common, mixed farming. This shows that this is a community that where they settled, civilization could emerge. I believe there are clues to this question only that 'some' people view the truth to be too unsettling to the status quo. The more we question this the more questions appear. I believe we didn't just germinate from earth around congo forest.
There is an 1747 map of Africa that shows "Kingdom of Judah" in West Africa. The Bantu came from this Kingdom. We are originally from Israel. We settled briefly in West Africa as Kingdom of Judah and because we are cattle keepers and Farmers, we needed fertile soil to grow our crops and pasture for our livestock, we moved to East Africa which has a good climate compared to West Africa. However, some Bantu moved to East Africa via Yemen. These settled mainly in present day Kenya. The majority of Bantu came via the West African route. Jambo from 🇺🇬
That's the question. Thanks for pointing this out . European came to africa and of cause they did notice similarities between our languages which is a fact but this migration thing I doubt because there is no proof . Our languages are obviously from one root given similarities . But the migration is not enough as a proof .
@@imhotep1613 Legit thankyou I finally met someone with common sense all these people in this chat are retarded thinking that bantu came from west or central africa yes bantu languages all have a common origin but that doesnt prove anything and for all the people saying genetics prove something it really doesnt.
@@imhotep1613 bantu come frome the area which modern day tanzania lies in they spread to the great Lakes and south Africa and eventually to central then west africa this is the true bantu migration pattern that's why most west african languages seem so distant to their east african counter part. And the word bantu means people but it also means those that belong to ntu and muntu lived in the areas of Tanzania so his kids were called abantu or those belonging to ntu. The word has nothing to do with God its just a language coincidence that it happens to have the prefix aba in it depended on the prefix the language uses .
So you are asking for archeological proof ? You may find some if you lucky. Remember the nose of the Sphinx in Egypt? the nose was chiselled out to hide something .and there are many others statues with broken noses. There could have been archeological evidences that were destroyed or confiscated
@@eliaskamau9618 The Egyptians werent bantu its possible they may have had encounters but the egyptians were nilotics not bantu or cushitics and its indeed suspicious that the sphynx nose is missing.
Thank you very much for this valuable information. I strongly belief that the bantu people are the scattered people of isreal which makes up the diaspora
@@dannyusen9208 You do know that scientist are do not always have the correct dates for haplogroups right? All this is theory until it can be proven 100% accurate. Deut 28:68 is telling you in the end times God's people will be taking into slavery by ship in all four corners of the earth. No event in history fits this detailed prophecy than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship captivity. God says, "From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings." Zephania 3:10. Let the Ancient One Yahweh lead you to the truth with Zephaniah 3:10.
@@dannyusen9208 older how.how can u be older than yourself.they are Israel hate it like it.u must be a hamite.i see no spirit of awakening in u.ur spirit doesn't resonate with God's .I see it from ur urguments.sorry u will be fine but trust me the truth is out and u cant do anything about it.Above all nations on earth,bantu they are like most high said.Arise😃
@@Shortyjored88 Danny usen is jealousy hamites or gentile who have always tormented bantu.now they are shocked,they can't take in bitter truth .even pharaoh never believed so but he was leveled.dont kind about danny.jealous eating him up😃
I would say the Great Lakes theory of origin is more plausible. Look at the prefixes. Languages around the lakes maintain a pre-prefix, reduced to an initial vowel. This is also seen in the Nguni languages of South Africa. In Gisu (Lumsaba around Mt Elgon, the full pre-prefix is still present. Most noun class prefixes in the majority of language maintain just the class prefix, having completely lost the pre-preprfix, which is still shown in pronominal concords and it is why PC and AC differ,
"Bantus" speaking peoples are YAH'S Chosen People (The Children of Yasharala/Israel) scattered throughout YAH'S EDEN (so called Africa). Our people have been scattered throughout the diaspora as well just like The Bible says. Wake up Yasharala and keep YAH'S Commandments!! ⏰
Please don't attempt to appropriate are history. The Bantu originate from Africa not Israel and its pretty ridiculous to suggest otherwise(no disrespect). Despite existing in Africa for years, Judaism and its off shoots of Christianity and Islam are all foreign to African. They were the principle religions of the greatest empires at the time of global conquest and colonization, specifically Christianity and Islam. I would never want to disrespect anyone's faith but history are "suppose" to be events that actually happen, lets not change are own identity to alter history.
@@rebels0ulja You didn't site one historical source... I'm not surprised. 🙄 Here's some FREE advise: unlike YOU, I have spent many, many, years studying and researching. Stop making yourself look like an absolute moron. If you don't know "something", invest the time & energy required BEFORE commenting erroneously... especially on my posts!! 💯 Go to the library, museum and make good use of the internet to acquire more knowledge. In the meantime... 🤫🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐
Dear friend Our original home is not Africa but Canaan, now known as Israel.We settled in Africa,i.e.Egypt,after the invasion by the Isralites.We were refugees then,so to say.After that we migrated further into central and western Africa before proceeding further south. Thank you.
Greater Africa is CANAAN as well. The Holy Land lies IN Africa, lookup a picture of Greater Africa..! ---> After that we migrated further into central and western Africa before proceeding further south.
Meru people, haplogroup E1B1B, from Kenya. Esua. Edom. I am Amerukhan, haplogroup E1B1A. Jacob. Jacobite. How many different Meru people are there? Where are they located?
@@shafsteryellow E1B1A and E1B1B are twins (Biblical Jacob & Esau. AND, Pharaoh Ramses 2 was haplogroup, E1B!A. The Meru people were worshipers of the gods, Horus. Horus was the son of the Atlantean/ American king, Thot. The Hebrew Israelites were haplogroup, E1B1A. They were Pleiadian soldiers left over from the Hyksos days in African Egypt/Khemet/Kenya. Despite history, we are family. I'd love to meet my family members.
Bro finally I'm glad more people are coming out and telling the truth most Bantu originate from Tanzania in East Africa. The majority of the people in the comment section including me agree with you.
Sotho language is the only language that you can clearly hear between Ngunis{Xhosa, zulu, swati, shangaane} and Sothos{Pedi,Tswana,Venda} but when Ngunis meet for the first time with other sothos they don't hear each other but when they meet up with pure Sotho like Balozi they can each other better
I don"t know about domestication of elephants, but we have people who are called people of Elephants line Ndlovu and Batloung. Nguni Kings were called great elephants like King Shaka and also queens.
Whaooo!!!!! great information about BANTU or ABANTU people, I was so glad to find the definition of the WORD BANTU which is ABBA-- MOST HIGH NTU -- PEOPLE So the full definition is "PEOPLE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD" GOD BLESS YOU. CHRISTOPHER E SHONGA
It's very interesting to learn about a black man's history written by a white man, it's exactly like when an African is writing the migration of the Europeans or Asians(it does not make sense) and it cannot be correct. It's just a strategy to make us feel like foreigners in our native land while they steal our minerals and resources (when we say it's our land therefore we want control/compensation for our resources(eg gold or diamonds in Southern Africa) , then they say we come from somewhere in Cameroon not to say that Cameroon doesn't have resources and a bad place to come from(they say the same thing to the people of DRC when they(Europeans) wanna steal their Gold, copper, uranium, oil and etc), therefore we can't benefit from our minerals because apparently even the DRC natives are from somewhere else and that apparently qualifies the Europeans and Asians to just take ownership of our resources.Our history is written in our surnames(totems) (by our people, our own kind). I really can't accept a history written by a hunter(Europeans) about the haunted(blacks /Africans /Bantu, we all have one thing in common which is our skin)
@@marvinngwenya8904 I totally agree with you , I'm east African Bantu, from the coast and we're originally from the coast, the east belongs to us us much as it belongs to the other other groups in the east.
Cuz, stop spreading misinformation if you are not citing Cheikh Anta Diop and are only getting your information from arab sources. Bantu began their journey in Tanzania. They went to the Congo then out to Nigeria and other places. This video is a farce.
I don't know who come up with this theory that Bantus are from west Africa but it needs to stop. Our grandparents and great grandparents never talked about the west they mention the north and the east of Africa. And I believe they are the holders of our history and heritage so they can't possibly have made this up. Most bantu languages have similarities and those similarities don't align with western languages. Most bantu cultures are similar and those similarities don't align with the western ones. Most Bantus have the same physical features and those features don't align with the west. So please please stop spreading this lie a white person told to cause confusion in the bantu tribe. They want to hide our true history because it's powerful. Bantu people please don't allow this The west doesn't even speak anything close to the bantu language
Your preety spot except that there are som bantu languages in west africa but majority of west africans are related to nilotes or cushites. Bantus originated from tanzania. the whole bantus are from west/central africa theory has already been debunked. And im glad that more people are speaking out to this nonsense and the video maker should do more research.
Where you place the original homeland is on old maps called Jew land. And Congo also used to be called Land of the Jews. BUT, the Bantu ISRAELITES come from EGYPT. The bible is their story and their god. They are the Chosen ones. Judaism Christianity Islam, all 3 are parts of hieroglyphs, so not the whole story. Jerusalem lies in what used to be called GREATER AFRICA. So the biblical lands are in AFRICA
My friend, Intore is a dance not a tribe name from Rwanda. We have three groups in Rwanda, the Abatutsi ( Tutsi) Abahutu ( Hutu) and the Twa, who are also the inhabitants of Rwanda. Overall thanks for the video
@@tomazyakobo8556 You must dig more, abaNtu, abaThwa, Batutsi, and others. Ntu was a descendant of Yeye of Godongwana, descendant of Hhamu known as Ham of Ishmael otherwise known as Abraham who had fathered him to his slave Hagayi. Ntu and his offspring then spread towards the centre of Africa, towards countries like DRC, Cameroon and others. Digging some more information will help you and discover how the bible misled the history of Black people.
They originate from North Africa watch The new Zulu kings King Misuzulus last coronation video that happened last year on October it’s on RUclips on SABC news it’s in English you’ll see the speaker says North Africa
Then how come bantus reached south east Africa (Rwanda, Mozambique) but not the Horn of Africa? (Ethiopia, Eritrea) 😂 from the north wouldnt they walk through and settled there first before they reached South Africa?
Thank you very much for your research. but, when you are talking about bantu please don't forget that we have our bantun people who called bahutu in Rwanda and Burundi. there are bantu and you always forget them in bantun's history.
I think he should refrain from this and just focus on the people as a whole and maybe on theories why that came to be. As this topic is still a contentious ( Bahutu/Batutsi) is still contentious in both areas. I may be wrong, but from my understanding, both these “groups” were social class classifications and only with colonialism did it change to mean a tribe/ ethnic group.
I'm Zulu and as far as I know the Bantu migration did not begin in West Africa this is false information. Not every African is a Bantu, if that word or uMuntu doesn't exist in your language then you are not Bantu.
I don't know why people think it came from west Africa it clearly didn't it came from ether central or southern africa like Zimbabwe because Zimbabwe's bantu languages sounds so similar to Luganda and Swahili
@Asukulu Msombo honestly if all Africans came from east Africa it would only make sense they came from there as well white people textbooks constantly contradict themselves.
Eeeeh, OK do you have some history that is correct more than this, i would love to hear it & i think the whole world would love..........so give us a video dear.
Because some Somalis have arab heritage. Even arab genes and traits. Other Somalis have black heritage. There are many Somalis that have married Arab people. So some Somalis are mix of Arab(mostly yemeni) and African.
Its an ethnic and linguistics people. Bantu comes up on DNA test. We come from the North East into Kemet we were slaves and Royalty there. We are Negroes.
our Kikuyu Embu and Meru (Kenyan Highland Bantus) myths talk about we came from 'Bururi wa Misri' meaning 'Land of Misri' Misri is the direct transliteration of the word 'Mizrayim' which means Egypt. i can clearly say there are many Bantu tribes with the same myth. I can say with boldness that Bantus are descendants of Ham ( sons of Ham are Known as Hamites but in Ancient Egyptian language Khemites) Since Hamites were many tribes, its during the Israelite flight that tribes forming Bantu fled from Egypt. most of them followed the Igbo, Akan and Yoruba (all are Hamites) westeward, but some moved directly south to East Africa through Ethiopia. (our case it seems Kenyan Highland and Coastal Bantu moved through Ethiopia as many myths seem to say) After Ethiopia to Shungwaya then to present places. Most went all the way down through Tanzania to Southern Africa, and some to Indian Ocean Islands. All these Bantus have many common characteristics. The other group followed western route include Bantus in Central Africa, Uganda and Western Kenya. those share many Characteristics. So Bantus are not Israelites they are simply Hamites and their forefathers are brothers to Cushites and Ancient Egyptians (Mizrayim)
Israelites are people who moved out of Egypt with pharoahs son Musa , second when they started been attacked by Arabs they returned to Africa all the way to South Africa it's how you want to loo at it but there is evidence of being Jews if you look deep in our culture, authentic deep,you know our people believed in kupashwa thahu and they kept water at the entrance to their homes so people could wash as they enter wasipate thahu, just like Jews believe in alot of things bing unclean, we are a brunch of jews
@@abelyahubenyasharalbenyahu9656 tell him to pick up the book of Jasher and chronicles of Jerahmeel and read about those movements and historical facts
According to my research sone Bantus are related to igbo ,yoruban , (particularly chichewa speakers). Bantus had a impact on most of east african ethnic groups . Bantus are the biggest ethnic group so this means they were the most powerful as well . Bantu mythology is very different from any mythology in Africa . Their linguistics are far older . Mulungu, kunye, ilanga, ,moya. Also Bantus did export their religion into mexico within mayan civilization. Mayan deities are written in Bantu languages .
@@alexb5812 I study both of their languages and they do share many of the same words . Even the map of the exodus from present day Nigeria shows the Bantu homeland was present day Nigeria.
@@TheTrill334 both of who’s language? As a Bantu person from west Africa Cameroon, right next to Nigeria, I’m telling you Yoruba is not Bantu. Soon you’re going to be saying Ivorians are Bantu sha. Where are u even from?
@@alexb5812 you're going to far . I never said yoruba is Bantu . I just said Bantu shares some words as yoruban and igbo. For example: Kunye=one(zulu) Nye= one(sesotho) Okan= mind,heart,one(yoruba) Asal=source, origin (somali), isiyalu=fountain/source(zulu) ṣẹlẹ=happen/cause(yoruba) Isi=head,core,base(igbo) Saul first king of israel according to jewish writers .
Lol white people did in most languages bantu means people and 500 years no africans called themselves bantu when europeans encountered africans they heard them call the white people bantu which means people and the europeans thought that the people were calling themselves bantu. Kinda like how Cristopher Columbus called the Native Americans Indians. Just like how no Africans called themselves cushites, nilotics and so on.
@@KingOfAfrica90 its either ntu or muntu depending on the language and muntu or ntu came from the areas of lower east Africa that's why almost all east african bantu languages they say abantu or people of ntu.
the bantu people they are come from DR CONGO Kinshasa because they speak same language to southern Africa and central Africa and eastern Africa that why and DR CONGO they have 488 tribes and languages speaking 488 in DR CONGO that why they west Africa they speak different language to they bantu if they bantu they come from west Africa they should speak they west Africa languages but they spoke different to they bantu languages that why im from usa 🇺🇸 America we believed they bantu people they are from DR CONGO ok don't confuse people
Surely west Africans speak totally different languages from bantu.No "NTU" in their languages.They luck that connecting code in their languages like Bantu group of people in other regions of east,central,southern africa
Lol bantu people dont come from dr congo the original inhabitants of congo were the pygmy people who first settle there also most of the bantu tribes originate from tanzania. Even the kings of the kikongo kingdom acknowledged this and most of the congolese people who are bantu say their ancestors are from tanzania.
Drago thunder star. I am mubembe . Bantu. I don't think we come from Tanzania. Tanzanians are a mixture of Bantus and neolotic. Congo is a huge country and the pygmies did not inhabit all of it.
@@dragothunderstar6526bro they don tf u mean they not origin from Congo ready this from Wikipedia Bantu languages derive from the Proto-Bantu reconstructed language, estimated to have been spoken about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago in Central Africa (the area of modern-day Congo). They were supposedly spread across Central, East and Southern Africa in the so-called Bantu expansion, comparatively rapid dissemination taking roughly two millennia and dozens of human generations during the 1st millennium BC and the 1st millennium AD.[10]
No evidence that they were in Nigeria, it's a purely Western linguistic hypothesis. The oldest DNA from West Africa, Northern Cameroon near Nigeria (?4000BC) is not related to either modern populations from West Africans or Bantus at all. All these regions were inhabited today and were originally populated by hunter-gatherers related to 'Pygmies', Khoisan etc. Early evidence of pastoralism, pottery, metrology and pottery, associated with West Africa, Bantu, Nilo-Sharan etc. have all been found in the Sahel/Sahara and Nile Valley. Millet, Sorghahm and African rice are unique to these regions today spread from the Sahel. The more likely scenario explored by some researchers is the ancestral populations of West Africans and Bantus lived in the Green Sahara(12,000BC-3,000BC) and Nile Valley and split off as the Sahara desertified, having developed agriculture, irons smelting and pottery to cope with a sedentary life, innovations forced on them by 'climate change.' Centuries of encroaching migrants from the Maghreb, Arabia etc. also caused migration/displacement. Next, we do not know to what extent Bantus and West Africans were in contact over the last few millennia as this could explain technological and cultural parallels, as opposed to rapid migrations. Amongst Linguists, some believe that Bantu should be its own totally separate language family. And several Niger-Congo language groupings such as Mande, Dogon etc. are disputed as having any relation at all to the Niger-Congo language family.
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l that was in fact the meaning of my question... I know and It has frequently been said, written and repeated that ‘There is no such thing as a Bantu people’, but ‘Bantu-speaking communities’!
@@me-vn1fz go do research Southern African countries(5) are South Africa Namibia Botswana Lesotho Swaziland that’s all Mozambique to the East part of Africa
@@fcafricanunion9915 no east is kenya , tanzania , uganda , rwanda, burundi , south sudan, somalia ,ethiopia ,eritrea, dijbouti only. Mozambique is even more culturally closer to South africa
Actually bantu's originated from west africa then settled around the great lakes region before they dispersed later. Maragoli oral history states that they migrated from misri( egypt) then proceeded to settle in west africa then to central and east africa.
the bantu came from egypt (EXODUS)..Along the nile past mare , succoth , jarbok then did a right GOING towards the west to were everyone thinks they originated because the GreeKs and the romans messed around with our history . the bible should be titled BANTU HERITAGE AND FUTURE PROPHECIES .The bantu are the jeews in the bible , bantus are the chosen children through abraham .ARFICA is the HOLY LAND
No it didn't start in Egypt.. Egyptians are not even bantu Egypt are literally Arab were not Arab everyone in these comments are all false you guys are so dumb
Am BANTU in East Africa Tanzania the region of Mara. According to my father who is 78 now is they migrated form Egypt and in between they intermarriage with nilotic hamite people but originally they were negros and he said other came through Lake tanganyika and others came through lake Victoria. And he told me. Another thing that there is a tribe in Cameroon that have the same qualities even names like them.... I dnt know if its true oe not
Less interesting compared to other east African countries where u find all biblical animals,biblical trees ,biblical mountains Kilimanjaro,rwenzori ,Elgon,mt.kenya,,,,biblical rivers,lakes,oceans
@ johnmbongenizond ! Hhayibo wena, you are wrong and right too. Canaan you have mentioned is in Africa, that’s where you are right. If we go and refill the Suez Canal , Jerusalem you will find it in Africa .
Bro finally I'm glad more people are coming out and telling the truth most Bantu originate from Tanzania in East Africa. The majority of the people in the comment section including me agree with you.
So you do not believe they came from north east Afrika. Soooo 2 things. 1.) you have not given history Of Kongo Basin. 2.) you do not believe Bantu are Yah’s chosen people. Sooo this be true of you than your migration chart should comes from other direction. Now if you are descendant of Ham Nilotic or Cushite then you may not care for what I’m sayin..... Salaama Salaama The Bantu are the biblical Yisolele/true Israel the white Israeli is not chosen people..! Bantu are in Kongo you can confirm with the elders. As well as them who they calling jesus is BLACK ... ooooo Yes....!!
J.I.K all I can say is the MUANDA Semi Set Apart Spirit Of TaTa NZAMBI led me here. By Spirit and Word which agreed. If it doesn’t agree with you, pray seek direction. If you are one of His People your will know and your spirit will bare witness.. other than that I cannot say.... thank you for asking.. if you are of the diaspora remember Yakuba who they call Jacob had 12 Sons everyone is not a Jew as they say. Hope this helps Salaama
@J.I.K Bantus are all related with same DNA and similar language and their forefather is one YAKOBA and Bantu language is Hebrew for e.g Isaac means laughter Yiseka/Iseka is the original Bantu Hebrew name because Abraham and Sarah laughed when Yahweh told them that they would have a child at their old age
Hi intore from rwanda is not a tribe, it refers to the dancers in rwanda and burundi in a particular dance (dance of the warriors). I am from Burundi. You mean to talk about the bantu in rwanda and burundi who are the hutus.
All lies given by the euro-freemasons, the bantus came from egypt! we are the ancient egyptians, this secret was shown to us in the movie black panther.
@@Hamorabi1234 Than you have offically been bamboozled by the euro clowns history books, all ky elders told me we come from egypt and without the sun nothing in this world will come to life, without the sun even us black people cant survive, and unlike jesus we see the sun everyday ✔
no bro. we're not ancient Egyptians. what happened? before the prophet Moshe take his people out of Egypt, a group of hebrews left ,we would call it the first exodus
Bantus originated from what is now Arabia. The same place where Abraham died. Long story short Sub-Saharan Africa is the promised land for the Bantus(Hebrews).
@@TororoGirlsschool there are no Aawambo people in current South Africa. The Aawambo people are only in Namibia and the southern most part of Angola. In addition you missed the Ovahimba and Ovaherero in Namibia and also the Kimbundu people from Angola.
It is wrong to say I am "Bantu". The correct expression is I am "Muntu". We are "Bantu"; They are "Bantu". A single person can never be "Bantu"
Indeed, that true. Thank you very much.
Well said
In my language mutu mean a person...
Every bantu person the word bantu mean person in their original language.
Correction À'BANTU😊
Am a Bantu from Mukongo tribe and am from Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩. We have been told by our parents from the early age that we are Bantu people
Nice to know, you r welcome.......we love u
Asè family 💜 Our spirituality as South African baNtu is based a lot on buKongo. Haitian Vodun and Palo as well.
In my language Sepedi( South Africa )🇿🇦 Motho (muntu)means one while Batho (Bantu) means 2 or many
Here in Kenya we learnt about these classifications in Schools. We never heard it from our parents. We learnt that Bantu is classified based on 'ntu' sound or other variations close to ntu when referring to a person or persons.e.g ndu, nhu. In Kikuyu we say mundu for one person, andu for people.
I'm a east African Bantu, from the coast of Kenya to be precise, but I refuse to agree with you that all bantus migrated from the west or Central, We know our history, it has been passed through from generation to generation. The europeans calls it a myth but I believe our ancestors were not fools to pass their history to our great, great grand parents and from them to our generation. I don't speak for all East African bantus, but I would speak for some of the tribes from the coast of Kenya and Tanzania. We originated from the east, before we settled in Kenya and Tanzania we used to settle in a place called Shungwaya, Shungwaya is believed to be somewhere around Somalia and Ethiopia, Another question is, if man originated in the east, then moved to the north and later to the west, central and south respectively. How come you tell us that all of us originated from the west, Yeah I agree some of the East and South African bantus might have migrated from Congo, Cameroon or Benin, but I'm 100% sure that it's not all of us. it's not all of us, it doesn't make sense 😂😂😂
Some of us are natives here.
White man was trying to devide us with this propaganda so that he could still from us.
Telling us that we don't belong here that we migrated from somewhere else jus like them. That Bantus are visitors in east/south Africa. Some even call us invaders 🙄.
Don't be fools my brothers and sisters, they's no single country in the subsaharan Africa that did not have Bantu that originated from there.
Well said
Obviously you are native but part of your ancestry comes from people who moved from central Africa, it's not a shame. Those saying you aren't native because of that are dumb since migration is part of all ethnicities. Europeans for example have ancestry from indo europeans from central Asia, Neolithic farmers from the middle east and so forth. Modern eastern bantu(especially Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) have also ancestry from cushites, nilotes, native hunter gatherers(hadza, sandawe, aari type), sometimes arab and indian in the coast, pygmy... It's well established now as genetic studies show that
You came to an interesting conclusion. I don't think the Bantu migration negates the fact that East Africans are indigenous to the area. Technically all humans are invaders to a certain degree, as homo sapient are believed to have developed in east Africa, as you have noted. Civilizations grow, move, merge and sadly die out, the population of today is very different from the populations of ancient times. People today are essentially the product of conquest and appropriation. I do agree that not all East Africans are of that Bantu migration however, the likeliest conclusion is that Bantu cultures blended with the indigenous people who absorbed most of the Bantu culture and languages. Keep in mind this migration is suggested to have occurred in the BCE's, so much is lost from time. African belong to the African the Europeans put up those boarders. Stay blessed brother.
@@mikailm6934 Yeah I agree with you 100% , what I don't like to hear is Arabs and Europeans telling us that we're visitors in east Africa, but I've never hard them saying nilotes and Cushites are visitors in the West, what they're trying to do is what we call "Anti-Bantu". The sad part is that some of our Bantu brothers and sisters are brainwashed and they agree with the text book history , which is not 100% true, Thank God we the people from this part of East Africa Know our history, atleast some of us know
@@rebels0ulja
I really understand all your points.
I myself am fang beti from cameroon and we are called bantu maybe because we live in south Cameroun north Gabon Guinea congo est. But our arrival on that region was on the nineteenth century. We know that because we met white colonisers o our way over to the south they first though that we were akang since we were only gangs of warriors so they called us a wrong name ( phaouin) up to now we have problems to tell the people who we are and where we came from originally. What I emphasise here is that we were all migrants at the biguinning, we had many locations out languages and names changed all throughout our journeys I am not sure that 10 generations back my language was exactly like today. The so called bantu may have moved eastward but your family coming from somewhere else did mixt with these proto bantu to produce who we are today. You see in my langage we say " we came from qoba ou kwa" which is today that sentence means literally today
.. We cam a long way. Qoba meaning old and our old is Soudan or we came from where the sun rises even we translate the name Ethiopia in nti djop ( all mighty sun) and so forth. Many names in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia Tanzania are tbe names of my tribe like Obama, and I also heard that idi amin actual name ANGO is also ours... Look at the symbolism in thought that we share in common. The leopard represents the power or the chief and we call it the same name Nze, nzui nsi, nsi, simba. So I also find that theory unclear Cameroon was certainly populated but not by us we came and mixt with those who lived there before and the Pygmies too and today it s impossible to find who owns the language that we speak. The Pygmies can claim it. To me the native Pygmies, the San, ond the nilotes are the first human creatures .and bantu and coushites came after them. In fact we are their progénitures. It s no science what I m saying but for the phenotypes .. Reveal whet is inside a person, bantu are various phenotypes coushites too. So we are a mixture of these first human and the ethnic groups and languages were formed later. Bantu is a word that no one use to call his people. The fang bêti refused Islam from the east to central Africa this is history. So when white folks divided the ethnic groups he could say that we were chadic or nilote if they found us in Ou refuge in the south of Chad. There are differences between us but these differences grew with time and the culture of the coloniser. In Cameroon we are bilingual with a predominance of French. So I think as a summary that we are no tribe or ethnic but clans ( broad families)
I am a coastal bantu and am duruma tribe...found along coastal part of 🇰🇪. Am blessed to be a bantu. MULUNGU umudzo.
You also use that word mulungu just like Gema communities and I priced giriama is just like gema languages so why the Hardin Kenya don't get
This is actually strange because here is South Africa, we the Zulu tribe identify a white man as uMulungu
@@mlondien9466 what unless the centuries of apartheid manipulated your narrative all Bantus murungu or mulungu depending on the tribe is God
Wait mulungu umudzo that sounds Chichewa from Malawi 🇲🇼? What language is it in Kenya 🇰🇪?
@@proudlyafrican6043 Mijikenda tribe from the coast of Kenya, what does it mean in Malawi I'm interested to know 😉
I stil don't think Bantu came from West Africa and that's just my opinion because even in most oral history Bantu trace their origins in east africa plus it would make sense if they would've moved from east to west.
Bantu originally come from Central Africa...some moved west and some East- the ones that migrated East eventually also migrated South
@@Akhona3 nice point I have point that's different from yours and the reason why I think Bantus are from east not central is because alot Bantu kingdoms would often go from east to central suggesting that that while they did have homes in east africa they would also go back to central plus it wouldn't make sense if bantus were from central or west africa because most bantu kingdoms expanded from east to west not the other way around. And people also forget that bantu weren't just farmers they were also fisherman in fact fishing was even greater than farming they were also herders in some instances as wel. But yeah I'd rather belive in the point you made than that whole Bantu came from West Africa nonsense. Plus these so called nilotic, Bantu, cushitic and so on are titles given by Europeans at an attempt to separate African African unity and yes while some African may have Asian an or Arab decent in the end we are all African and it's important to be proud of your culture but not to the point where you fight your own neighbor.
@@dragothunderstar6526 there is no pan african unity or identity, people have different tribes and cultures. Nilotics have their own ethnic metagroup who are tall dark and skinny. Cushitics are between berbers and nilotics and are afro asiatic speakers with more in common with north Africa then most of black Africa. West Africans and bantus are both average to medium tall heigh, muscular or stocky and brown/yellow to darkskin but not nilotic dark. Genetic evidence has proven along with linguistic and cultural evidence that bantus originate from cameroon.
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 nothing about that is disinformation, but genetically supported facts
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 I'm sorry man but oral history just doesn't prove that it's even written in the Tanzanian library that many of the tribes originated in Tanzania and spread out to neighboring east Africa than south than central than west.
I am an East African Bantu from the Baganda tribe 🇺🇬
Me too. Ssabasajja Kabaka a wangale!!!!!!
Same
Bro 🤣 just say am umuntu (singular)
@@ChroniclesofApex Umuntu isn’t in my language, so I wouldn’t know it. We have “Omuntu” which means person but not everyone would know that 😂
@@trilllk7371 Ohhh but you can also use that I guess it's similar 🤣 like zero Difference 🤞
Bro my roommate back in Stellenbosch University was Ugandan and I got to say I was suprised that we have similar sounding words which actually mean the same thing as my own birth language 'IsiZulu' from the Zulu tribe.... That was Dooooooooope
Oooh nice to hear, great.
Im from Uganda from tribe of banyankore we believe to have migrated from South Africa
Every time im listening to traditional music from South Africa i get emotional sometimes I cry and sleep peacefully
My friends are always asking i have relatives or root zulu people
@God Candidate very true. I have a Zulu friend called Nomkhosi, we also have that name in Uganda.
@@amahuman8394yes there was migration but I think it was from the equator down to Southern Africa.
I have often wondered why most Africans use the same word for meat, Nyama or Nama. From Hausa in West Africa to isiXhosa in South Africa. Check it out!
I am Bantu from America and proud of my African roots! AbbaNtu people are God’s people!
Muntu from America, please explain
@@mambelelembambe4255 I say this because most of my DNA comes from Kongo, Cameroon, Angola region Infact, the first African Americans were from the Kingdom of Ndongo
@@Jah_Nzola The Ghanaians and their likes will take issue with that. What you are claiming about Black Americans is true about Brazilians..
@@mambelelembambe4255 We in the diaspora whether AA, Afro Caribbean, or Afro Brazilian are an amalgamation of multiple West African and Central African tribes… Afro Brazilians are mostly Bantu but also have West African DNA from Yoruba, Igbo, and Ghana. Afro Carribeans and African Americans are mostly West African (Igbo, Yoruba, Akan, Senegambian) but also have a strong percentage of Bantu from Congo.
Every African American has Bantu DNA, you will not find one that doesn’t.
@@Jah_Nzola it's rare to find one that doesn't
Which tribes in West Africa are Bantu today ??? Our own oral history as the Shona in Zimbabwe says we came from Tanga Nyika which in Shona means the place where the earth began ... I have heard and account from a great spirit medium of the Shona who traces our migration from Sudan Ethiopia and ancient origin to Mesopatamia
The Tiv people of central Nigeria (Benue state) and the Ekoi peoples of Cross River State in south-easten Nigeria.
@@ncheedxx0109they immigrated from Congo Katanga from Luba people so we Bantu aren’t from west
Mesopotamia?!
Maybe we went there, but we do not come from there.
Thokozani, I'm umuNtu oNgoni from South Afrika. 🇿🇦
Representing Zulu (Mnguni, Qwabe, Gumede, Lwandle), Xhosa (baTwa, Msuthu, Mpondo, Thembu) and Swati (Ngwane, Ndau, Mlozi) klans.
Excellent content, Mayibuye 👏🏼👏🏼
Ndebele people are really the underdogs right next to Khoi people 😔.
@@hicallmefrank represent them! 👏🏼
@@nokumira well... for one, we are also Ngunis/Ngonis, which you failed to mention. And I do try to represent them as best as I can.
@@hicallmefrank I'm mentioning MY Ancestral clans sthandwa, I don't have any Ndebele blood. In fact my clans have many beefs with maTebele lol.
And "Khoi" is covered under baTwa, the original founders of our land 💜
@@nokumira really? All the Nguni tribes have kwaal with the Ndebeles, DAMN?
See, I don't believe in the whole "Khoi were the founders of our land" idea. Using that logic, if the colonisers came from East, they would've came across the bantu, primarily the Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele if it was before mfecane but only Zulus if it was after). then what? would we have the right to claim that we were the founders of this land and not the Khoi? That idea is unfair.
I am a Bantu in Kenya I speak Bantu which is called Kikuyu
Muntu 🥰🥰🥰
I'm kikuyu as well.. well half kikuyu
In West Africa there is no language related to Bantu,but East, southern, southern west and central ethnic languages are closely related.When we speak we use common words.
Surely in west Africa they are very few or non bcoz there languages are totally different
@@morganbabu3105 lol on that I agree with you there are bantu languages in west Africa but very few. I don't know what kind or narrative the maker of the video was trying to push. Put a lot of Africans in the comment sanctions aren't putting up with the nonsense which is great to see.
@@dragothunderstar6526 The maker of the video was trying to push a narrative that excludes the origin of Bantu. This is a false narrative. The bantu originated from South East Nigeria into Camaroon and then into Congo and EAST Africa. How can you exclude the origin of a people from the People. Clearly the homeland of the Bantu started in Nigeria as is obvious from the video.
@@romulenrising bro you’re spouting the same nonsense as the video also all Africans originate from east Africa’s it’s been proven already. Also Bantu came from Tanzania then they spread out to South Africa then central Africa and from their they went all the way to west Africa. This has already been proven. Also there’s no archeological proof that shows that Bantu come from Nigeria. Also most of west Africa is mostly, Africans of Cushitic, stock especially Nigeria itself. Few countries like Gabon and others are primarily Bantu.
@@dragothunderstar6526and that supported by archeological discoveries,that oldest human remains were found in Tanzania,this will make sense to claims that original of all Africans not only Bantus is Tanganyika then spreads to rest of Africa just said
I am Bantu from Uganda East frica,Thank you brother
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HISTORY SIR THIS FROM KOJJA SSS MUKONO UGANDA
So sad to have a brother repeating what he has been taught by his colonial masters. The Bantu never migrated but spread because Africa was and has always been their homeland.
They also lived in modern day Middle East. That was all their territory before European invasion.
I don't think that's right but what is for certain is that bantu originated in lower east africa around the areas of tanzania
The Bantu first originated around the Benue- Cross rivers area in southeastern Nigeria, Archeological and linguistic evidence suggests that Cushitic speakers dominated significant areas of East Africa before the Bantu expansion in 1,000 BC to 1 AD. Later on, the Nile (Nilotic) people penetrated the region as well. That's why you today find so many cross-over phenotypes and facial features among the East African, and tribes around the great lake region. They are heavily mixed with Southern Cushites (Pre-Boranas, Somalis) Tutsis, Himas, Maasais, Datoga and Iraqw in Tanzania are clearly showing affinities genetically with the Afara, Bejas, Somalis and Oromos.
@@dragothunderstar6526 The natives of East Africa are the Cushitic and Nilotic speaking tribes. Us Bantus are originally from west-central Africa.
@@PierreJJ. dont talk if you dont know anything about east Africa this proves you dont know anything the Himas were never Tutsi in both their oral history and archeological findings the Himas of Tanzania have always been bantu even neighboring countries know that its only been very recently till tutsis started identifying as Hima. And the Bantu first encountered the bushment and pygmies after spreading out further into east then south central and west africa. No east African bantu kingdom has origins in west africa they all originate from east africa more specifically the areas around what is now Tanzania. Oral history can be a strong thing especially when multiple tribes across multiple countries in EA share the same origin.
@@PierreJJ. Speak for yourself moron we dont share the same language or culture. while we do have some similarities they are preeety far apart. We know our own history and I admire some the west african empires some the very best to have ever existed. But Bantu dont originate from west africa my friend. The nilotic speak tribes migrated from the areas around sudan into east africa and some areas of central africa. The bantu were already there in east africa. And even historical evidence suggests that they themselves are newcomers to east africa.
Zephaniah 3:10 ? Beyond the rivers of Cush
no, this has nothing to do with the bible you weirdo hotep
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 EVERYTHING has something to do with the Bible SMH don’t be mad because The Most High YAHUAH didn’t give you ANY UNDERSTANDING
@@awareyah6146 youre not jews, lol
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 Yes We are. Are jealous? Nothing is gonna change wheneve you think.
Sir, thanks for the info, however, Ngoni people are made of four tribes (Zulu, Swati, Ndebele and Xhosa), they are still in South Africa.
Thank you so much for the good lesson. Am abantu from Western Uganda (Bunyoro Kitara kingdom) Hoima oil city.
Welcome dear.
Sefania 3:10-11
[10]Maana toka nchi iliyo mbali na mito ya Kushi, waniombao dua, yaani, binti za watu wangu waliotawanyika, wataleta matoleo yangu.
[11]Siku ile hutatahayarikia matendo yako yote uliyoniasi; maana hapo nitawaondoa watu wako wanaotakabari na kujivuna, wasiwe kati yako, wala hutatakabari tena katika mlima wangu mtakatifu.
The Most High knows where his chosen people are they are the Bantus. No matter how mankind try to make us lost by scattering us in all four corners of the earth. In due time he will bring us back home. WE ARE THE CHOSEN ONES
@@glorytoyahzulu6229 it’s coming sooner and sooner 🙏🏾who knows he’ll probably gather us this year
This bantu migration theory or story has been repeated over and over again, but I think white man originated this theory. To be honest, if the cradle of human kind is East Africa, then Bantus did not come from Cameroon or Congo, they were already here in East Africa, I am not disputing that some groups of people did indeed migrate in the region, but it is completely false to say that all Bantu speaking people migrated here.
True Bantus have always been East Africa
Yes, I'm seeing too many contrasting stories going around, and some are lies.
As bantu from Kenya I believe we migrated here know your history my friend people used to migrate
Who where the natives in these lands before the Bantu migration?
it is believed the bushmen where the natives
@@TowerAcademic Who are bushmen? What was their language? What's their surviving tribe?
@@LabanBwire The Bushmen are the indigenous peoples of southern Africa. Largely hunter-gatherers, their territory spans several nations and they have called the region home for tens of thousands of years.
@Mohammed Bapalori Ninya history of Ethiopia is greatest then all of Bantu history
@@spymasterk4873 hahaha. You make me laugh. Ethiopia may have a history, but Ethiopians, lacked knowledge of assimilation, expansion , exploration and cultural exhibition,which were core to the Bantu migration. Bantus is the most spoken about compared with other African tribes including Abyssinia , which is modern day Ethiopia. Bantu land constitutes over 50% of Africa's total land mass.
Thank you for the information much appreciated. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 Long live the Bantus
🤔 Could they have Originated in South America And Came Before The Land Split?
Thank you for your Academic and Scholarly work. We learnt this in school and I accepted it as Fact, until I spent 6 months in the DRC. I went to the jungle as in Conglo Rain Forest many times to see with my own eyes this marvel and every time we had to travel by boat to reach the Jungle as it was impassible. You cannot walk 1 kilometre through the jungle with having to clear your way with a panga as vegetation is everywhere, not withstanding all the predator's, snakes, and bugs that would end your life in minutes.
European Scholars have pushed this theory for years, and the problem I have with it is I know from my experience that you cannot walk through the jungle in the way they have described. It is impossible. One major obstacle are the hundreds of rivers that you will have to cross. These are not small rivers. These are mighty rivers some of them a kilometer or more wide. This would put any migration journey on halt for a very long time, so that is wny I disagree with this migration from the Cameroon.
Another reason I find this Cameron migration to be inaccurate is why would the Bantu travel away from the the lushes on the rain forest to the dry Savannahs. This doesn't make much sense.
A more logical explanation is that the Bantu originated from East Africa and spread across Africa. We have a clear open highway from East Africa all the way to Southern Africa that was used by traders for years and that Shaka Zulu used to expand his empire Northwards as far as Tanzania.To get to the Congo Forest, theese Bantu would have travelled to Uganda then Rwanda and crossed in to the Congo from Rwanda.
Another possible route was Southern Tanzania and then to southern DRC. This is a logical route as this entire region speaks Swahili as the routes I have mentioned were used for centuries by traders (including Slave Hunters) for the Arab Slave Trade on the Swahili coast of East Africa.
The Uganda route may have made it to Cameroon but not by way of the Jungle. Entering Central Africa Republic then Congo Brazzaville to finally make it to Cameroon. this would have been a difficult journey, however, in my opinion this was plausible.
i appreciate your view here, it's noted
True I don't know why we believe the narrative pushed by colonial masters and yet they make alot of visible eras about us even today and they push them because doing real research is difficult for them ,but I noticed the Angola people of ancient Kongo ,use the same words like east Africans like Nyoka ,ngombe I was so impressed they use the same words in Colombia where our people went just great maybe there was constant contact due to trade among our people coz the Kongo kingdom was big
You lie brother why you don't say we coming from tz
No animal at Cameroon only be forest no water actually it's possible baba
@Dan the Revolutionary ..it makes.a lot practical sense to ignore the Caucasian Theory of Bantu migration from West to East..
The Caucasian always Advanced these Noxious theories so that their own Recent 350 year migration can be accommodated into BANTU AFRICA..
In Australia they did a documentary called "DNA Nation" with Ernie Dingo n Ian Thorpe etc and uncle Ernie Dingo is Australian indigenous but it was proved that his ancestors over 14000 generation on his mom side took him back to Ethiopia
I"m South African and speak most Bantu languages in our country. We call meat "Nama" or "Nyama". It would be interesting to know what others call it (meat). I know that the Hausas in West Africa also call it "Nama".
Here in Tanzania we call it it NYAMA
In Uganda it’s called Nyama
What other Hausa words are similar to South African words? For instance, what is PEOPLE in Hausa? We can't just take one word and run with it. Give more examples of words we have in common. Otherwise that could just be a coincidence or an example of a borrowed word
@@emmanuelmatogoro9348 wow family ❤
@@PrizedCalves8930 wow like Zulus ❤
i didn't know that youtube had such an educative historical video........Asante Muwalimu
Half truth,he needs to study deep ancient before putting out such info,
Just imagine if the Bantu were speaking the same language not related but same language
Any DNA studies, language similarities, archaeological evidence, oral history which could support these theories?
The studies done by the University of Witwatersrand has manage to link Bantu in South Africa and surrounding countries to East Africa and Grate Lake region.
@@keketsomega8358 Many Bantus escaped Shaka Zulu , by setting in these regions.
@@alanle1471 I mean their ancestry many years before Shaka. His Nguni ancestor and many other in Southern Africa
The Kenyan Bantus didn't settle on the great lake regions, rather on the Mountains slopes of Mt. Kenya
Eastern Kenya and the coast too
wahoo, nice lesson Sir. i have loved the way u organized your lesson. it has greatly helped me to understand the Bantu people
It's my pleasure
ruclips.net/video/-F89rSBybJIb/видео.html
Some of it is true but it's mostly false stuff
the idea of bantus migrating from west africa has been debunked.no traces of bantu traditions , languages and cultures exist today except among central east and southern africans.
Wrong. The closest languages to bantu are in Nigeria(Ibibio, efik, annang..) and the diversity in languages are higher over there meaning the bantu came from there and expanded as a subset of these languages(benue congo)
@@mikailm6934 Nah this is BS, doesn't it make sense to you that provably those lonely three tribes you've mentioned ventured northwards when everybody else was in the Kongo and southern Africa? Does it make sense to you that 97% of the tribes can move away and live very little behind? There's no archeological evidence to support this out of west Africa BS. We came from Kongo up towards north east Africa.
@@njavwa2886 They arent the only ones, ive only mentioned few examples. It's not just their existence that shows it but they also are the most divergent linguistically so the migration began around their area to expand further south, not the other way around. If you didn't know, finding archeological sites is harder in tropical areas because the climate deteriorates these evidences way more than in cold or desertic areas. Archaeologists have had more troubles in India or Amazonia too because of that. Several findings were still found and t complete them, linguistic and genetics help. All the linguistic and genetic studies point to an initial dispersion around the Nigerian/Cameroonian border. If you remove non bantu admixture , the closest population to Southern Bantu are those in eastern Africa then in Central Africa(Zambia, Angola,Congo.) then those above Congo forest(Northern Congo, Cameroon) and southern Nigerians come after. It perfectly fits the linguistic classification of the Bantu languages as a subgroup of the Benue Congo languages of Nigeria . There is no more debates about that, we can dispute the details of it but that's all. North East Africa is vague and there is no archeological findings, genetical or linguistical links showing that, i expected more coming from someone denying all the proofs of the Bantu expansion
@@mikailm6934 Okay my link to further counter evidence is being deleted. But check out Bantu Origins of Ancient Egypt by Cheikh Diop. It will point to where we came from as a collective Bantu and non bantu. We came south others west.
Yes they did migrate from west Africa
The question of Bantu migration is still up for discussion even now. The stories we have been taught in class do not add up from what our grandparents tell us and yet these are the keepers of our history. The common linguistic characteristic of the Bantu language shows they were once one big community that thrived. shared cultural practices like every born son have to be circumcised is a common practice by all Bantus, dowry to the daughter's parents is common, mixed farming. This shows that this is a community that where they settled, civilization could emerge. I believe there are clues to this question only that 'some' people view the truth to be too unsettling to the status quo. The more we question this the more questions appear. I believe we didn't just germinate from earth around congo forest.
It's still a theory
There is an 1747 map of Africa that shows "Kingdom of Judah" in West Africa. The Bantu came from this Kingdom. We are originally from Israel. We settled briefly in West Africa as Kingdom of Judah and because we are cattle keepers and Farmers, we needed fertile soil to grow our crops and pasture for our livestock, we moved to East Africa which has a good climate compared to West Africa.
However, some Bantu moved to East Africa via Yemen. These settled mainly in present day Kenya. The majority of Bantu came via the West African route. Jambo from 🇺🇬
Because bantu are Israelites whowere scattered as they were running away from slavery (deut 28:68)
How do you grand parents know? We are talking about a history spanning 300 years.
@@Myreturnjourney No we are not from Israel.
Please keep up your good work we use it to learn during covid
Where's the archeological evidence to prove this "bantu" migration?
That's the question. Thanks for pointing this out . European came to africa and of cause they did notice similarities between our languages which is a fact but this migration thing I doubt because there is no proof .
Our languages are obviously from one root given similarities . But the migration is not enough as a proof .
@@imhotep1613 Legit thankyou I finally met someone with common sense all these people in this chat are retarded thinking that bantu came from west or central africa yes bantu languages all have a common origin but that doesnt prove anything and for all the people saying genetics prove something it really doesnt.
@@imhotep1613 bantu come frome the area which modern day tanzania lies in they spread to the great Lakes and south Africa and eventually to central then west africa this is the true bantu migration pattern that's why most west african languages seem so distant to their east african counter part. And the word bantu means people but it also means those that belong to ntu and muntu lived in the areas of Tanzania so his kids were called abantu or those belonging to ntu. The word has nothing to do with God its just a language coincidence that it happens to have the prefix aba in it depended on the prefix the language uses .
So you are asking for archeological proof ? You may find some if you lucky. Remember the nose of the Sphinx in Egypt? the nose was chiselled out to hide something .and there are many others statues with broken noses. There could have been archeological evidences that were destroyed or confiscated
@@eliaskamau9618 The Egyptians werent bantu its possible they may have had encounters but the egyptians were nilotics not bantu or cushitics and its indeed suspicious that the sphynx nose is missing.
Thank you very much for this valuable information.
I strongly belief that the bantu people are the scattered people of isreal which makes up the diaspora
Please, don't say that again. Bantu people are older than Israel.
@@dannyusen9208 You do know that scientist are do not always have the correct dates for haplogroups right? All this is theory until it can be proven 100% accurate. Deut 28:68 is telling you in the end times God's people will be taking into slavery by ship in all four corners of the earth. No event in history fits this detailed prophecy than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship captivity. God says, "From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings." Zephania 3:10. Let the Ancient One Yahweh lead you to the truth with Zephaniah 3:10.
@@dannyusen9208 older how.how can u be older than yourself.they are Israel hate it like it.u must be a hamite.i see no spirit of awakening in u.ur spirit doesn't resonate with God's .I see it from ur urguments.sorry u will be fine but trust me the truth is out and u cant do anything about it.Above all nations on earth,bantu they are like most high said.Arise😃
@@Shortyjored88 Danny usen is jealousy hamites or gentile who have always tormented bantu.now they are shocked,they can't take in bitter truth .even pharaoh never believed so but he was leveled.dont kind about danny.jealous eating him up😃
@@morganbabu3105 how is being a hamite make him not have the spirit of God?
I would say the Great Lakes theory of origin is more plausible. Look at the prefixes. Languages around the lakes maintain a pre-prefix, reduced to an initial vowel. This is also seen in the Nguni languages of South Africa. In Gisu (Lumsaba around Mt Elgon, the full pre-prefix is still present. Most noun class prefixes in the majority of language maintain just the class prefix, having completely lost the pre-preprfix, which is still shown in pronominal concords and it is why PC and AC differ,
And Lake Victoria is the Sea of Galilee; Mt. Kenya is Mt. Tsiyon; the Nile is the Gihon River for starters.
"Bantus" speaking peoples are YAH'S Chosen People (The Children of Yasharala/Israel) scattered throughout YAH'S EDEN (so called Africa). Our people have been scattered throughout the diaspora as well just like The Bible says.
Wake up Yasharala and keep YAH'S Commandments!! ⏰
Please don't attempt to appropriate are history. The Bantu originate from Africa not Israel and its pretty ridiculous to suggest otherwise(no disrespect). Despite existing in Africa for years, Judaism and its off shoots of Christianity and Islam are all foreign to African. They were the principle religions of the greatest empires at the time of global conquest and colonization, specifically Christianity and Islam. I would never want to disrespect anyone's faith but history are "suppose" to be events that actually happen, lets not change are own identity to alter history.
@@rebels0ulja You didn't site one historical source... I'm not surprised. 🙄
Here's some FREE advise: unlike YOU, I have spent many, many, years studying and researching. Stop making yourself look like an absolute moron. If you don't know "something", invest the time & energy required BEFORE commenting erroneously... especially on my posts!! 💯
Go to the library, museum and make good use of the internet to acquire more knowledge.
In the meantime... 🤫🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐
@@rebels0ulja read in book Isaiah (isaya)18:7 you will see.
@@jkeyes5863 Don't involve bantus in your hebrew nonsense.
@@rebels0ulja I agree with you your people is not Israel and is not the chosen people and neither is those Jews
Dear friend
Our original home is not Africa but Canaan, now known as Israel.We settled in Africa,i.e.Egypt,after the invasion by the Isralites.We were refugees then,so to say.After that we migrated further into central and western Africa before proceeding further south.
Thank you.
Nah Carthage were the people in canaan not bantus
yes your origin is Africa not Canaan .
Greater Africa is CANAAN as well. The Holy Land lies IN Africa, lookup a picture of Greater Africa..! ---> After that we migrated further into central and western Africa before proceeding further south.
Alot of errors in the video bro, you need to re-do the video
Meru people, haplogroup E1B1B, from Kenya. Esua. Edom. I am Amerukhan, haplogroup E1B1A. Jacob. Jacobite. How many different Meru people are there? Where are they located?
😂
@@shafsteryellow what's so funny? The Bible goes deeper than you know.
@ Meru are e1b1a
@@shafsteryellow E1B1A and E1B1B are twins (Biblical Jacob & Esau. AND, Pharaoh Ramses 2 was haplogroup, E1B!A. The Meru people were worshipers of the gods, Horus. Horus was the son of the Atlantean/ American king, Thot. The Hebrew Israelites were haplogroup, E1B1A. They were Pleiadian soldiers left over from the Hyksos days in African Egypt/Khemet/Kenya. Despite history, we are family. I'd love to meet my family members.
@ lool they existed over 40,000 years ago buddy
Most Bantus like the ndebele,sotho,tshwana,Zulu etc can trade their ancestry to East Africa and their languages and culture proves that.
Am from east Africa but I don't know why being in south Africa I feel am living amongst my people.the spirit surely tells me so
@@morganbabu3105 Even the languages e.g Swahili sounds almost like Nguni and Venda
Bro finally I'm glad more people are coming out and telling the truth most Bantu originate from Tanzania in East Africa. The majority of the people in the comment section including me agree with you.
Sotho language is the only language that you can clearly hear between Ngunis{Xhosa, zulu, swati, shangaane} and Sothos{Pedi,Tswana,Venda} but when Ngunis meet for the first time with other sothos they don't hear each other but when they meet up with pure Sotho like Balozi they can each other better
@@itumelengmosailane1192 that's interesting
Domestication of the elephant
What are the bantu groups that domesticate the elephant and what are the resources that could be cited?
I don"t know about domestication of elephants, but we have people who are called people of Elephants line Ndlovu and Batloung. Nguni Kings were called great elephants like King Shaka and also queens.
Wow.. Nice flow of the lesson.. Well paced.. Keep it up
Glad you liked it!
Great lesson....are there any other history lessons that you uploaded if so then could I please have a link or where I can get them from :)
i have been working on some great Historical content, i will be releasing it soon, you will be the first to know.
I cringed hearing the words negro and hamites. Why we still using out dated racist terms
African tribal rivalries can get dirty and even deadly many times
@@shadora except when using clan names
Ooooh big up to you teacher thanks for your lecture on origin of Bantu people
Who’s is looking at comments not video
Yep! The drama and spice is in the comments 🥰
@@Akhona3 lol I'm adding up to the drama and spice as well
You stated that the Hamites mixed with the Negros, is there a difference?
@Timothy DcPub yeh hamites are Sudanese,Somali,Ethiopian,Fulani we’re different but both black
Whaooo!!!!! great information about BANTU or ABANTU people, I was so glad to find the definition of the WORD BANTU which is
ABBA-- MOST HIGH
NTU -- PEOPLE
So the full definition is "PEOPLE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD"
GOD BLESS YOU.
CHRISTOPHER E SHONGA
People of the Father. Abba means father.
Very true
It's very interesting to learn about a black man's history written by a white man, it's exactly like when an African is writing the migration of the Europeans or Asians(it does not make sense) and it cannot be correct. It's just a strategy to make us feel like foreigners in our native land while they steal our minerals and resources (when we say it's our land therefore we want control/compensation for our resources(eg gold or diamonds in Southern Africa) , then they say we come from somewhere in Cameroon not to say that Cameroon doesn't have resources and a bad place to come from(they say the same thing to the people of DRC when they(Europeans) wanna steal their Gold, copper, uranium, oil and etc), therefore we can't benefit from our minerals because apparently even the DRC natives are from somewhere else and that apparently qualifies the Europeans and Asians to just take ownership of our resources.Our history is written in our surnames(totems) (by our people, our own kind). I really can't accept a history written by a hunter(Europeans) about the haunted(blacks /Africans /Bantu, we all have one thing in common which is our skin)
@@marvinngwenya8904 I very much agree with you. This kind of history is unacceptable
@@marvinngwenya8904 I totally agree with you , I'm east African Bantu, from the coast and we're originally from the coast, the east belongs to us us much as it belongs to the other other groups in the east.
Vambo is Namibia not SA?
Forced islamization is the single most driving force behind why the moved.
Theirs a difference between arabs and Islam
bantu migration happened before islam
Cuz, stop spreading misinformation if you are not citing Cheikh Anta Diop and are only getting your information from arab sources. Bantu began their journey in Tanzania. They went to the Congo then out to Nigeria and other places. This video is a farce.
I don't know who come up with this theory that Bantus are from west Africa but it needs to stop. Our grandparents and great grandparents never talked about the west they mention the north and the east of Africa. And I believe they are the holders of our history and heritage so they can't possibly have made this up. Most bantu languages have similarities and those similarities don't align with western languages. Most bantu cultures are similar and those similarities don't align with the western ones. Most Bantus have the same physical features and those features don't align with the west.
So please please stop spreading this lie a white person told to cause confusion in the bantu tribe. They want to hide our true history because it's powerful. Bantu people please don't allow this
The west doesn't even speak anything close to the bantu language
i did, i respect your option. Thank you so much.
Your preety spot except that there are som bantu languages in west africa but majority of west africans are related to nilotes or cushites. Bantus originated from tanzania. the whole bantus are from west/central africa theory has already been debunked. And im glad that more people are speaking out to this nonsense and the video maker should do more research.
Where you place the original homeland is on old maps called Jew land. And Congo also used to be called Land of the Jews. BUT, the Bantu ISRAELITES come from EGYPT. The bible is their story and their god. They are the Chosen ones. Judaism Christianity Islam, all 3 are parts of hieroglyphs, so not the whole story. Jerusalem lies in what used to be called GREATER AFRICA. So the biblical lands are in AFRICA
My friend, Intore is a dance not a tribe name from Rwanda. We have three groups in Rwanda, the Abatutsi ( Tutsi) Abahutu ( Hutu) and the Twa, who are also the inhabitants of Rwanda. Overall thanks for the video
Batutsi ARE NOT BANA BANTU, Batwa are also not Bantu but HUTU are part of the Baantu group!..This is just to correct you...
@@tomazyakobo8556 In the end, We are all Rwandan people. And I am proud
@@yesuaragukunda2893 lol it's true it's a dance not a group of people the dance is also in Burundi as well
@@tomazyakobo8556 You must dig more, abaNtu, abaThwa, Batutsi, and others. Ntu was a descendant of Yeye of Godongwana, descendant of Hhamu known as Ham of Ishmael otherwise known as Abraham who had fathered him to his slave Hagayi. Ntu and his offspring then spread towards the centre of Africa, towards countries like DRC, Cameroon and others. Digging some more information will help you and discover how the bible misled the history of Black people.
@@yesuaragukunda2893 Don't involve yourself in bantu affairs if you're a tutsi. Only hutus should
They originate from North Africa watch The new Zulu kings King Misuzulus last coronation video that happened last year on October it’s on RUclips on SABC news it’s in English you’ll see the speaker says North Africa
Then how come bantus reached south east Africa (Rwanda, Mozambique) but not the Horn of Africa? (Ethiopia, Eritrea) 😂 from the north wouldnt they walk through and settled there first before they reached South Africa?
Thank you very much for your research. but, when you are talking about bantu please don't forget that we have our bantun people who called bahutu in Rwanda and Burundi. there are bantu and you always forget them in bantun's history.
Oooh sorry dear, we shall do better next time
I think he should refrain from this and just focus on the people as a whole and maybe on theories why that came to be. As this topic is still a contentious ( Bahutu/Batutsi) is still contentious in both areas. I may be wrong, but from my understanding, both these “groups” were social class classifications and only with colonialism did it change to mean a tribe/ ethnic group.
He called them Intore, a name for a Rwandan dance
I'm Zulu and as far as I know the Bantu migration did not begin in West Africa this is false information. Not every African is a Bantu, if that word or uMuntu doesn't exist in your language then you are not Bantu.
Oooh dear, i respect your option
I don't know why people think it came from west Africa it clearly didn't it came from ether central or southern africa like Zimbabwe because Zimbabwe's bantu languages sounds so similar to Luganda and Swahili
Cameroon is in Central Africa
Soooooo all Bantus came from Cameroon then expanded to Central, East, & Southern Africa.
Professor Williams Carter not all tribes.
@Asukulu Msombo Did I say that ?
Clearly your not reading my message properly.
@Asukulu Msombo honestly if all Africans came from east Africa it would only make sense they came from there as well white people textbooks constantly contradict themselves.
The Bantu ppl in Cameroon migrated from DRC.
@@KingOfAfrica90 Okay but what tribe in DRC do they decend from ?
So helpful.
Thanks
Am a bantu in Uganda and I speak a bantu language called Samya ❤️.... Thanks for the info.
In bantu there is no ouma baba,u belong to nilotics
@@kakemborichard7928 yes Ouma is a Luo name. My daughter is Auma, the female form.
@@kakemborichard7928 stop bangi am samia to from kenya ,, my dad is omari,my brother is otunganga and my another name is ayuma
Ouma is a Luo name, how are you bantu?😀
@@jessicanabifo8594 , you're Luo...
Your research is shallow. Bantu people are Hebrews. Ask your self where Hebrew people are originally found?
This is google staff not real African history. 🤓
Eeeeh, OK do you have some history that is correct more than this, i would love to hear it & i think the whole world would love..........so give us a video dear.
lol I agree with you my guy has never set foot in any of these countries.
What They have island call buntu island in somalia
nice work, please
Thanks, will do!
Nice topic
We settled in Somalia too. Im Somali Bantu
Are you serious?
@@trevor9240 Um yes
@@africankidd3642 howcome some Somalis identify as black, other as Arab, other as their own race?
Because some Somalis have arab heritage. Even arab genes and traits. Other Somalis have black heritage. There are many Somalis that have married Arab people. So some Somalis are mix of Arab(mostly yemeni) and African.
@@africankidd3642 all Somalis have Arab heritage but to varying degrees
Its an ethnic and linguistics people. Bantu comes up on DNA test. We come from the North East into Kemet we were slaves and Royalty there. We are Negroes.
our Kikuyu Embu and Meru (Kenyan Highland Bantus) myths talk about we came from 'Bururi wa Misri' meaning 'Land of Misri' Misri is the direct transliteration of the word 'Mizrayim' which means Egypt. i can clearly say there are many Bantu tribes with the same myth.
I can say with boldness that Bantus are descendants of Ham ( sons of Ham are Known as Hamites but in Ancient Egyptian language Khemites) Since Hamites were many tribes, its during the Israelite flight that tribes forming Bantu fled from Egypt. most of them followed the Igbo, Akan and Yoruba (all are Hamites) westeward, but some moved directly south to East Africa through Ethiopia. (our case it seems Kenyan Highland and Coastal Bantu moved through Ethiopia as many myths seem to say) After Ethiopia to Shungwaya then to present places. Most went all the way down through Tanzania to Southern Africa, and some to Indian Ocean Islands. All these Bantus have many common characteristics.
The other group followed western route include Bantus in Central Africa, Uganda and Western Kenya. those share many Characteristics.
So Bantus are not Israelites they are simply Hamites and their forefathers are brothers to Cushites and Ancient Egyptians (Mizrayim)
Even the luhya claim to come from misri
Israelites are people who moved out of Egypt with pharoahs son Musa , second when they started been attacked by Arabs they returned to Africa all the way to South Africa it's how you want to loo at it but there is evidence of being Jews if you look deep in our culture, authentic deep,you know our people believed in kupashwa thahu and they kept water at the entrance to their homes so people could wash as they enter wasipate thahu, just like Jews believe in alot of things bing unclean, we are a brunch of jews
Wi muguruki weee, we are not hamite at all.
We are shemites.
@@abelyahubenyasharalbenyahu9656 tell him to pick up the book of Jasher and chronicles of Jerahmeel and read about those movements and historical facts
Ok dear
According to my research sone Bantus are related to igbo ,yoruban , (particularly chichewa speakers). Bantus had a impact on most of east african ethnic groups . Bantus are the biggest ethnic group so this means they were the most powerful as well . Bantu mythology is very different from any mythology in Africa . Their linguistics are far older . Mulungu, kunye, ilanga, ,moya. Also Bantus did export their religion into mexico within mayan civilization. Mayan deities are written in Bantu languages .
bantus are related to lower west africans as a whole, they were actually pushed out by existing tribes that are still alive today
Yoruba are not Bantu, they don’t have a Bantu language.
@@alexb5812 I study both of their languages and they do share many of the same words . Even the map of the exodus from present day Nigeria shows the Bantu homeland was present day Nigeria.
@@TheTrill334 both of who’s language? As a Bantu person from west Africa Cameroon, right next to Nigeria, I’m telling you Yoruba is not Bantu. Soon you’re going to be saying Ivorians are Bantu sha. Where are u even from?
@@alexb5812 you're going to far . I never said yoruba is Bantu . I just said Bantu shares some words as yoruban and igbo. For example: Kunye=one(zulu)
Nye= one(sesotho)
Okan= mind,heart,one(yoruba)
Asal=source, origin (somali),
isiyalu=fountain/source(zulu)
ṣẹlẹ=happen/cause(yoruba)
Isi=head,core,base(igbo)
Saul first king of israel according to jewish writers .
Im Somali Bantu
@Mursal Djama war naga aamus dameeryoho gaal ayuu iskumaleeya
@Mursal Djama cushitic maxaa waaye language group not a demographic ciyaarta naga dhay wax soo baro xooloyohow
@Mursal Djama war muxuu sheege Somali ku hadal saxib
@@abdiguinean4940 somali are cushitic people by genetic testing we have no arab DNA.
@@mursalwarsame5839 Somali waa bantu
You are not a bantu why telling a bantu history? Where is Zambia, Namibia Botswana and Malawi in your explanations?
Bantu are the true Israelites
Where did the name Bantu come from? Who named these people Bantu?
Lol white people did in most languages bantu means people and 500 years no africans called themselves bantu when europeans encountered africans they heard them call the white people bantu which means people and the europeans thought that the people were calling themselves bantu. Kinda like how Cristopher Columbus called the Native Americans Indians. Just like how no Africans called themselves cushites, nilotics and so on.
The term Bantu is found in my languages of Ntu. It means people or descendants of Ntu
@@KingOfAfrica90 its either ntu or muntu depending on the language and muntu or ntu came from the areas of lower east Africa that's why almost all east african bantu languages they say abantu or people of ntu.
Teach them. I love my people
@@dragothunderstar6526 muntu is singular(a person), Bantu is plural(persons)
the bantu people they are come from DR CONGO Kinshasa because they speak same language to southern Africa and central Africa and eastern Africa that why and DR CONGO they have 488 tribes and languages speaking 488 in DR CONGO that why they west Africa they speak different language to they bantu if they bantu they come from west Africa they should speak they west Africa languages but they spoke different to they bantu languages that why im from usa 🇺🇸 America we believed they bantu people they are from DR CONGO ok don't confuse people
Surely west Africans speak totally different languages from bantu.No "NTU" in their languages.They luck that connecting code in their languages like Bantu group of people in other regions of east,central,southern africa
Lol bantu people dont come from dr congo the original inhabitants of congo were the pygmy people who first settle there also most of the bantu tribes originate from tanzania. Even the kings of the kikongo kingdom acknowledged this and most of the congolese people who are bantu say their ancestors are from tanzania.
Drago thunder star. I am mubembe . Bantu. I don't think we come from Tanzania. Tanzanians are a mixture of Bantus and neolotic. Congo is a huge country and the pygmies did not inhabit all of it.
@@dragothunderstar6526bro they don tf u mean they not origin from Congo ready this from Wikipedia Bantu languages derive from the Proto-Bantu reconstructed language, estimated to have been spoken about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago in Central Africa (the area of modern-day Congo). They were supposedly spread across Central, East and Southern Africa in the so-called Bantu expansion, comparatively rapid dissemination taking roughly two millennia and dozens of human generations during the 1st millennium BC and the 1st millennium AD.[10]
@@estajeanette7487 lol Tanzania has over 126 languages. You know nothing about the country.
where were they before they left Nigeria?
No evidence that they were in Nigeria, it's a purely Western linguistic hypothesis. The oldest DNA from West Africa, Northern Cameroon near Nigeria (?4000BC) is not related to either modern populations from West Africans or Bantus at all. All these regions were inhabited today and were originally populated by hunter-gatherers related to 'Pygmies', Khoisan etc.
Early evidence of pastoralism, pottery, metrology and pottery, associated with West Africa, Bantu, Nilo-Sharan etc. have all been found in the Sahel/Sahara and Nile Valley. Millet, Sorghahm and African rice are unique to these regions today spread from the Sahel.
The more likely scenario explored by some researchers is the ancestral populations of West Africans and Bantus lived in the Green Sahara(12,000BC-3,000BC) and Nile Valley and split off as the Sahara desertified, having developed agriculture, irons smelting and pottery to cope with a sedentary life, innovations forced on them by 'climate change.' Centuries of encroaching migrants from the Maghreb, Arabia etc. also caused migration/displacement.
Next, we do not know to what extent Bantus and West Africans were in contact over the last few millennia as this could explain technological and cultural parallels, as opposed to rapid migrations. Amongst Linguists, some believe that Bantu should be its own totally separate language family. And several Niger-Congo language groupings such as Mande, Dogon etc. are disputed as having any relation at all to the Niger-Congo language family.
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l that was in fact the meaning of my question... I know and It has frequently been said, written and repeated that ‘There is no such thing as a Bantu people’, but ‘Bantu-speaking communities’!
Bantu people are also from what you call the Middle east
Lol
Lmao we are not arab
@@Tssharif nobody said you was. Now have a seat.
Am a bantu from rubirizi in Uganda
Mozambique is in Eastern Africa
@@me-vn1fz go do research Southern African countries(5) are South Africa Namibia Botswana Lesotho Swaziland that’s all Mozambique to the East part of Africa
@@fcafricanunion9915 east is commonly known as Kenya Uganda Rwanda Burundi Tanzania south Sudan Ethiopia Somalia djouboti
@@fcafricanunion9915 no east is kenya , tanzania , uganda , rwanda, burundi , south sudan, somalia ,ethiopia ,eritrea, dijbouti only. Mozambique is even more culturally closer to South africa
@@lolo-hp3bt Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda are the most culturally close in easy Africa.
@@me-vn1fz it's in between stop arguing
Bantu originated in great lakes region around tanzania went north the spread out east and west but more south
Ty im glad more Africans are coming out and telling the truth most of the people including me agree with you in the comment section as well.
Actually bantu's originated from west africa then settled around the great lakes region before they dispersed later. Maragoli oral history states that they migrated from misri( egypt) then proceeded to settle in west africa then to central and east africa.
Great video Sir, please also handle the migration of the nilotics into east Africa
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Point of correction AAWAMBO are in Namibia. Which was called southwest Africa bfr its independence from white south African regime
Ok dear , thank you for your correction.
The Somali Bantu Asante sana
1300 AmaHlubi had a King Chibi and is not mentioned.
the bantu came from egypt (EXODUS)..Along the nile past mare , succoth , jarbok then did a right GOING towards the west to were everyone thinks they originated because the GreeKs and the romans messed around with our history . the bible should be titled BANTU HERITAGE AND FUTURE PROPHECIES .The bantu are the jeews in the bible , bantus are the chosen children through abraham .ARFICA is the HOLY LAND
No it didn't start in Egypt.. Egyptians are not even bantu Egypt are literally Arab were not Arab everyone in these comments are all false you guys are so dumb
Iam a Bantu from Kenya the Agikùyù from Central Kenya
The secerts of the most high will
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Thank you 🎉❤
The so called Bantu migration and expansion is myth period.
It is false.
Am BANTU in East Africa Tanzania the region of Mara. According to my father who is 78 now is they migrated form Egypt and in between they intermarriage with nilotic hamite people but originally they were negros and he said other came through Lake tanganyika and others came through lake Victoria. And he told me. Another thing that there is a tribe in Cameroon that have the same qualities even names like them.... I dnt know if its true oe not
Ok dear
East Africa is wildly intressersting place especially Ethiopia the country that
Less interesting compared to other east African countries where u find all biblical animals,biblical trees ,biblical mountains Kilimanjaro,rwenzori ,Elgon,mt.kenya,,,,biblical rivers,lakes,oceans
@ johnmbongenizond ! Hhayibo wena, you are wrong and right too. Canaan you have mentioned is in Africa, that’s where you are right. If we go and refill the Suez Canal , Jerusalem you will find it in Africa .
You were miseducated about the migration so stop lies ✋
Provide the facts dear.
Bro finally I'm glad more people are coming out and telling the truth most Bantu originate from Tanzania in East Africa. The majority of the people in the comment section including me agree with you.
There Batwa in South Africa as well. They are the ones that have more clicks than Xhosa and Zulu.
So you do not believe they came from north east Afrika. Soooo 2 things. 1.) you have not given history Of Kongo Basin. 2.) you do not believe Bantu are Yah’s chosen people. Sooo this be true of you than your migration chart should comes from other direction.
Now if you are descendant of Ham Nilotic or Cushite then you may not care for what I’m sayin..... Salaama Salaama
The Bantu are the biblical Yisolele/true Israel the white Israeli is not chosen people..! Bantu are in Kongo you can confirm with the elders. As well as them who they calling jesus is BLACK ... ooooo Yes....!!
J.I.K all I can say is the MUANDA Semi Set Apart Spirit Of TaTa NZAMBI led me here. By Spirit and Word which agreed. If it doesn’t agree with you, pray seek direction. If you are one of His People your will know and your spirit will bare witness.. other than that I cannot say.... thank you for asking.. if you are of the diaspora remember Yakuba who they call Jacob had 12 Sons everyone is not a Jew as they say. Hope this helps Salaama
J.I.K Akwetey Amaah is in Ghana from Tribe Of Ga or Gad
@J.I.K Bantus are all related with same DNA and similar language and their forefather is one YAKOBA and Bantu language is Hebrew for e.g
Isaac means laughter
Yiseka/Iseka is the original Bantu Hebrew name because Abraham and Sarah laughed when Yahweh told them that they would have a child at their old age
I was scrolling the comments to see if someone had corrected him. Thank you.
Hi intore from rwanda is not a tribe, it refers to the dancers in rwanda and burundi in a particular dance (dance of the warriors). I am from Burundi.
You mean to talk about the bantu in rwanda and burundi who are the hutus.
All lies given by the euro-freemasons, the bantus came from egypt! we are the ancient egyptians, this secret was shown to us in the movie black panther.
No we are NOT
@@Hamorabi1234 Its sad than you have no idea at all, know thy self budy its important, go watch asar imenhotep he goes hours aswell proving this
@@LUX-lx6fb Im no Egyptian i have studied my culture by asking my elders and it has nothing to do with egyptians nor worshiping the SUN .
@@Hamorabi1234 Than you have offically been bamboozled by the euro clowns history books, all ky elders told me we come from egypt and without the sun nothing in this world will come to life, without the sun even us black people cant survive, and unlike jesus we see the sun everyday ✔
no bro. we're not ancient Egyptians. what happened? before the prophet Moshe take his people out of Egypt, a group of hebrews left ,we would call it the first exodus
Bantus originated from what is now Arabia. The same place where Abraham died. Long story short Sub-Saharan Africa is the promised land for the Bantus(Hebrews).
The Aawambo people are from Namibia, not South Africa.
They spread to south Africa, due to the south ward movement.
@Mohammed Bapalori Ninya • Horners & North Africans are indigenous to North & Northeast Africa. We didn't come from the ocean.
@@TororoGirlsschool there are no Aawambo people in current South Africa. The Aawambo people are only in Namibia and the southern most part of Angola. In addition you missed the Ovahimba and Ovaherero in Namibia and also the Kimbundu people from Angola.
We have AmaMbo or Mambo in South Africa who part of Nguni group.
Am Tanzanian Bantu 🇹🇿