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What countries speak Bantu?
Communities speaking Bantu languages are indigenous to twenty-seven African countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, Comoros, Congo, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda.
Where are the Bantu people now?
Today, the Bantu-speaking peoples are found in many sub-Saharan countries such as Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Angola, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and Burundi among other countries in the Great Lakes region.
Is Bantu politically correct?
More recently, ‘black’ and ‘African’ became the politically correct terms. The social and political use of the term ‘Bantu’ in South Africa is permanently tied to the divide-and-rule politics of both the British imperial and the Afrikaner regimes.
Who are the Bantu people?
The term “Bantu people” is used to describe the roughly 60 million Africans who speak languages in the Bantu language family.
What are some Bantu customs?
One of the popular and celebrated traditional festivities is the fire festival known as Deb-Shid, in which people dance and sing around a bonfire to celebrate the beginning of a new year. Somali Bantu observe Muslim holidays and several important life cycle rituals including the birth of a child, marriage, and circumcision.
What is the Bantu religion?
Religion of Bantu People. Traditionally, the basic beliefs of Bantu people had been polytheistic. However, the beliefs soon started moving towards monotheism. Today, the religion of a majority of Bantu people is Christianity.
Who were the Bantu people in Africa?
Bantu peoples. Bantu are the speakers of Ntu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa .