Researchers have used genetic analysis to model the much-debated migration paths, and mingling patterns, of Bantu-speaking people as they disseminated across Africa. Their results reveal how ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...

The expansion of the Bantu-speaking people (EBSP) during the past 3000–5000 years is an event of great importance in the history of humanity. Anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and, in recent ...

The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from the late Stone Age to the present. In recent years increasing prominence has been ...

Around 5,000 years ago, the Bantu of west and central Africa moved across the continent, forever changing its language and culture. This is according to new research which has use DNA analysis to ...

Life remains an anxious effort for a refugee community of about 300 people in 42 families. They came on an airlift of 12,000 Bantu plucked from desperate straits in Africa beginning in 2003. The U.S.

, a soc.history.what-if alum as well, mentioning offhand that archaeologists had "debunked" the idea of the Bantu demographic expansion. Because, unfortunately, much of archaeology consists of ...

Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

As Bantu-speaking people migrated across Africa, they acquired advantageous genetic mutations through admixture. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 5, 2017, issue of Science, ...