There is evidence that the Bantu ancestors of the modern Swahili ... environmental stress and population increase in West Africa, forcing people to move. It is important to realise that these ...

WERNER is best known in the field of African philology, for her knowledge of Bantu tongues is probably ... her researches into the mythology of the people dealt with in this work.

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

Bantu is the word widely used as a description of a body of people originally based in west or central Africa who, over the course of three thousand years, moved to populate east and southern regions.

Well known as an authority on the geography and history of parts of Central and East Africa ... The bulk of the tribes are Nilotic, though some show Negro or Bantu affinities.