How the Bantu people surged across two-thirds of Africa • Hacker News Board

Re: How the Bantu people surged across two-thirds of Africa

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Post by slice_of_life » Mon, May 08, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

babayega2 wrote: post #22

slice_of_life wrote: post #3

Very interesting read. I am a Bantu from Kenya and I'd like to tack on something to this. First of all, it's incredible how intellectually insatiable the HN community is; I never imagined a post like this would end up on the HN's home page because of how niche it is. I happen to speak up to 4 languages - Eng, Swahili, my native language Kikuyu and very rusty French. It may surprise you to know that when I listen to o…

What do you think has been going into Burundi and Rwanda where Hutu ( Bantu) are up against Tutsis (Nilotes) ? I really hope you guys do not go the hard days we went trough!

> I really hope you guys do not go the hard days we went trough!

I hope so too. It's unlikely but you can never be certain.

Re: How the Bantu people surged across two-thirds of Africa

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Post by mveety » Tue, May 09, 2017, 8:39 AM UTC

buyx wrote: post #25

nroets wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Khoisan have occupied much of Africa for much of human history. [1] I don't know exactly how the Bantus displaced the people that they came across, but I suspect some form of foul play. 1: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6692

How would you explain the integration of Khoisan click consonants in Bantu languages if foul play was involved?

Things like that come from "cultural contact" which can be peaceful or violent.

Re: How the Bantu people surged across two-thirds of Africa

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Post by PGenes » Tue, May 09, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

lesiki wrote: post #2

I'm "double Bantu" - as a Kenyan I speak our national language Swahili, and I'm also from the Bantu Bukusu tribe of Western Kenya on my father's side. This migration history is even more complex because the migration was in waves - Bantu who went to South Africa later migrated north again, meeting Bantu who were already there from earlier migration. You can tell this from the fact that some southern African languages…

Awesome! I was aware of languages similar to Zulu being found in East and Central Africa. As well as Sesotho in parts of Zambia/DRC. Never heard of the Venda connection before. It would be great to know the History behind this.