(The Shona are Bantu people of Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique.) Garlake, for his part, feels the word more likely derives from dzimba woye, "venerated houses," a term usually reserved for chiefs ...

It has about 42 tribes divided into three main language groups: Bantu-speaking, Nilotic-speaking, and Cushitic-speaking tribes. Bantus in Kenya are grouped into Western, Central, and Coastal ...

Several hours from Fort Portal, the nearest large population center, we stopped at a Bantu town swarming with people. It was market day, and scores of vendors had spread out their wares—goat ...

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.

The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa: an Ethnographical Survey. Edited for the (South African) Inter-University Committee for African Studies by I. Schapera. Pp. xv + 453 + 24 plates.

Listen here to singing by the Kalahari people, descendants of the early communities displaced by the Bantu "The question concerning whether or not the Bantu migration actually occurred will await ...