Greetings
Yes I, Empress Yaa is correct in her narration of I n I history. Bantu speaking peoples cover Cameroon-Nigeria to the Somali-Kenya coastline and all the way down south to the Cape Agullas in South Africa. There are over 400 languages that all came from the same tongue and because of this common linguistic parentage you find similarities in some words. The Hutus and Tustis are very contentious groups to classify because this was a classification done by good ol' Bismark and King Leopold II. Tutsis were said to have a flat nose and were distinguished from the Hutu by height. The Tutsi were said to be the suns of Ham and the Bantu Hutu had the more European noses (!) Its a classification with no genetic or racial validity that has been used as a colonial strategy of classification to divide and rule managed to kill millions and leave the survivors fighting amongst each other for generations to come.
Anyway I digress, Bantu migratory patterns cover the southern third of the Motherland and the eastern bloc is from Uganda to the Cape and there are similarities in the languages and the greatest concentration of Bantu peoples is between the Congo River and Zambezi river. On the western bloc as the Empress said it extends from the Cameroon-Nigeria seaboard, and it continued to grow because of the advancements the Bantu made in the Iron Age. The use of iron was widespread in farming and hunting so because of this change, populations began to increase, pressuring the need to move eastwards. The Swahili Kingdom arose out of interaction between Africans and Indonesian and Arab traders and was spoken mainly on the East African coastline from parts of Somalia, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania and down to Mozambique. The name comes from the Arabic word 'sawahil' meaning boundary or coast and 'ki' means language. Swahili, Lingala and are Creole trading languages. The Swahili city states grew out of trade with Arab and Persian merchants from about the 6th centruy there was alot of interaction between these people. This is why Islam has such a stronghold on Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia. They traded alot in cloths, ornaments, fish and in Zanzibar and to a lesser extend Mozambique there was human trade with the Portuguese that became slave raids and these slaves are what make up part of Brazil today.
As the I say the term Bantu has its negative connotations because it was used as derogatary term in southern Africa and was used as administrative law, but it still has its validity as term to name us as peoples. Its wicked what the system has done to us and taught us to shun ourselves even our own naming systems, cultural practices and such. But I and I must continue to uncover and take back what is rightly our heritage, our pride and glory. Hence we discover the biggest truth which is the Black Jesse Christ in His Majesty, Haille I, Conqueror of All.
Blessed Love
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