| 单词 | Bantu |
| 例句 | Sabata was opposed to the Bantu Authorities and would not capitulate, but my visitors were afraid that Matanzima would depose him, which is eventually what happened. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bantu Education had come back to haunt its creators, for these angry and audacious young people were its progeny. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anger over the Bantu resettlement plan prompted Mayor Swaney to act. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z At my request we were married in that room by the village chief, in a ceremony that was neither quite Christian nor Bantu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Khoisan peoples of southern Africa had already acquired sheep and cattle a few centuries ahead of the Bantu advance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I can imagine her painted face and annoyingly perfect Bantu knots even without seeing them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Yet, the Bantu Authorities Act would replace it with an even more repressive system: a feudalistic order resting on hereditary and tribal distinctions as decided by the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was clear that Somali Bantu slated for resettlement in the United States would need a great deal of help. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Of all the reasons that kept me plodding along the long and hard road of Bantu Education, the most important was that my mother and Granny were proud of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Since all other Niger-Congo speakers, as well as the Bantu, are blacks, we couldn’t have inferred who migrated in which direction just from the evidence of physical anthropology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The few modern Khoisan speakers survived mainly because of their isolation in areas of southern Africa unsuitable for Bantu farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Essentially the same line of reasoning tells us that the nearly 200 million Bantu people, now flung over much of the map of Africa, arose from Cameroon and Nigeria. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The meeting broke up in anger; this gave us some sense of the grassroots objections to the Bantu Authorities Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeph had been a teacher in Orlando, and was a staunch opponent of Bantu Education, and one of the most level-headed of the PAC’s leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “There is no place for the Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Groups prone to primary liver cancer, as for example the Bantu tribes of Africa, are typically subject to malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The southernmost Bantu people, the Xhosa, stopped at the Fish River on South Africa’s south coast, 500 miles east of Cape Town. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Daliwonga was playing a leading part in persuading the Bunga to accept Bantu Authorities, for the new order would reinforce and even increase his power as the chief of Emigrant Thembuland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The much heavier consequence was that the Dutch settlers in 1652 had to contend only with a sparse population of Khoisan herders, not with a dense population of steel-equipped Bantu farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The argument for an indefinite boycott was that Bantu Education was a poison one could not drink even at the point of death from thirst. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had championed the creation of the bantustans and Bantu Education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Qamata, we all sat down to examine the issue of the proposed Bantu Authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By soon after 1000 B.C. the Bantu had emerged from the eastern side of the forest into the more open country of East Africa’s Rift Valley and Great Lakes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While I despised the conservative politics of Radio Bantu served up by the government-run South African Broadcasting Corporation, I reveled in its music. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had hoped to talk with Sabata about the Bantu Authorities, but his health made it impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When these children of Bantu Education entered their late teens and early twenties, they rose up with a vehemence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That union of Austronesians and East Africans lives on today in Madagascar’s basically Austronesian language, which contains loan words from coastal Kenyan Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In particular, the most distinctive Bantu languages, and the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages most closely related to Bantu languages, are packed into a tiny area of Cameroon and adjacent eastern Nigeria. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I pinned my hopes on the thought that a mistake had definitely been made by the Department of Bantu Education, as would be shown when the principal’s inquiry was answered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Why weren’t they applying pressure to their representatives in Parliament to force them to enact legislation abolishing Bantu Education and to address a myriad of other black grievances? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent that night in a boardinghouse in town, rose early, and was joined for coffee in my room by two local chiefs to discuss their role in the new Bantu Authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Trading and marriage relationships were undoubtedly established between those Khoisan and the Bantu farmers, each occupying different adjacent habitats, just as Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers still do today in equatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s how the Bantu were able to engulf the Khoisan, instead of vice versa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bantu schools taught no science, no history, no civics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The publication of the report of the Tomlinson Commission for the Socio-Economic Development of the Bantu Areas had set off a nationwide debate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, I felt, as did many other students, that with Bantu Education, the source of all the violence, still in place, there was no point in learning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Somali Bantu presented an extraordinary challenge for resettlement officials. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Collectively, the Bantu languages constitute only a single, low-order subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The long interactions between Africa’s many peoples generated its fascinating prehistory, including two of the most dramatic population movements of the past 5,000 years—the Bantu expansion and the Indonesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Students were picked up who to my knowledge had never done anything subversive except call for an end to Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the minister of Bantu education, ex-plained that education “must train and teach people in accordance with their opportunities in life.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Figure 19.1, of recent African human distributions, reminds us that the Bantu did not overrun all the Khoisan, who did survive in southern African areas unsuitable for Bantu agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most recently, when the Somali civil war began in 1991, the warring factions forced the Somali Bantu off their land in the fertile Juba River valley. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The coloured students in Alexandra had till now refused to participate in the school boycotts, claiming that they were not being taught Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But my mother was blessed that her village was one of the places where a mission school had contrived to stay open in spite of the government’s Bantu education policies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We did not close down African schools throughout the country nor did we rid ourselves of the Bantu Education Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But those books had nothing to do with Bantu Education,” I protested. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The cows that the Bantu acquired from the tsetse-free Sahel zone failed to survive the Bantu expansion through the equatorial forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s easy to oversimplify what was undoubtedly a rapid and dramatic expansion, and to picture all Khoisan in the way being trampled by onrushing Bantu hordes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had been persecuted for more than three hundred years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z In the first place, I said, the Bantu Authorities was impractical, because more and more Africans were moving out of the rural homelands to the cities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When did the Bantu reach the former Pygmy and Khoisan homelands? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some wore gold-beaded wraps atop their heads; others had hair coiffed into short Afros, Bantu knots, twists, and dreadlocks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z By the last centuries B.C. the advancing Bantu had reached the East African coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mission was to persuade Daliwonga — a man destined to play a leading role in the politics of the Transkei — to oppose the imposition of the Bantu Authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For it was Bantu Education that produced in the 1970s the angriest, most rebellious generation of black youth the country had ever seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We painted placards that condemned Bantu Education, Afrikaans and apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Thema, who was editor of the newspaper the Bantu World, fiercely criticized the campaign in his paper, claiming that Communists had taken over the ANC and that Indians were exploiting the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Greenberg recognized that all Niger-Congo languages of subequatorial Africa belong to a single language subgroup termed Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To approach the question about the Bantu’s advantages, let’s examine the remaining type of evidence from the living present—the evidence derived from domesticated plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only gradually, as the Bantu multiplied and incorporated cattle and dry-climate cereals into their economy, did they fill in the leapfrogged areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The agencies said they would scatter the Bantu around the various apartment complexes in town, wherever they could find space. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Tracy joined up as well and spent time teaching English to just-arrived Somali Bantu refugees for fifteen dollars a week. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Although they represented scarcely i% of the Bantu population they took it upon themselves to tell the world that the Africans in South Africa are suppressed, oppressed and depressed.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These were men I was trying to persuade to reject Bantu Authorities, and it was apparent that I had not made a very good impression. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What can archaeology tell us about the other great population movement in recent African prehistory—the Bantu expansion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though Coloured Education was compulsory and slightly better than Bantu Education, it still qualified Coloureds for third-class citizenship, behind whites and Indians. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It does not serve the Bantu to learn history and science because he is primitive,” the government said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Before we trace Khoisan survival beyond the Bantu tide, let’s see what archaeology tells us about Africa’s other great prehistoric population movement—the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Under apartheid, the government built what became known as Bantu schools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the Bantu schools, children were only taught in their home language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We’ve now seen, from Niger-Congo language distributions, that the blacks who did the engulfing were the Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She understood that the Bantu would need a great deal of help, but she didn’t know who was going to provide it. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Bantu Authorities was a retreat from democracy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Zambia? So did you speak Bembi, then, or one of the other Bantu languages?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Someone thought it a mighty fine idea to destroy all traces of Bantu Education and white oppression.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The ANC regarded any acceptance of Bantu Authorities as a capitulation to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All we can say for sure is that, in places where Khoisan peoples had lived for perhaps tens of thousands of years, there are now Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why shouldn’t the ANC participate in the new Bantu Authorities structures as a means of remaining in touch with the masses of people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the further evidence that I’ll now present can help us answer two more questions: What advantages enabled the Bantu to displace the Pygmies and Khoisan? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the Cape has a Mediterranean climate of winter rains, in which the Bantu summer-rain crops do not grow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The actual formation of the Youth League took place on Easter Sunday, 1944, at the Bantu Men’s Social Center on Eloff Street. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bantu speak of “self” as a vision residing inside, peering out through the eyeholes of the body, waiting for whatever happens next. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The first Bantu pioneers probably were few in number, selected wet-forest areas suitable for their yam agriculture, and leapfrogged over drier areas, which they left to Khoisan herders and hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What happened with education in South Africa, with the mission schools and the Bantu schools, offers a neat comparison of the two groups of whites who oppressed us, the British and the Afrikaners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Few in Clarkston knew anything about the history of the Somali Bantu when they learned, through media reports, that another wave of refugees was coming to their town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But the consequences of Bantu Education came back to haunt the government in unforeseen ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that there was a law that stated that no black person could be released or tried on weekends, for the Bantu courts were open only on weekdays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This harsh reverie was interrupted by the happy music of Radio Bantu on my car radio. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s why we have lodged a protest with the Department of Bantu Education. We think that the computer must have made a mistake. We hope to hear from them in a week or two.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of more lasting significance was a large-scale population shift within Africa itself, the Bantu expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even after apartheid, most black people still lived in the townships and the areas formerly designated as homelands, where the only available government schools were the broken remnants of the Bantu system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The word “gumbo” is said to derive either from the West African Bantu word for okra – ki ngombo; or the Choctaw Indian for the herb filé – kombo. Jacob Kenedy’s recipe for a Louisiana-style turkey gumbo ya ya | Christmas leftover recipes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z There are Somali Bantus too, and they are discriminated against by Somalis. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z This was where Joe learned Palenque, the African argot derived from Bantu that became one of the trademarks of his lyrics. Joe Arroyo obituary 2011-08-02T18:15:31Z In his travels through South African villages, Walker noted that “unformed stools are frequently encountered among rural Bantu.” Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Along the way, he encounters an alter ego, the Harlem hustler Carlyle Bedlow, another of Mr. Kelley’s recurring characters, for whom Mr. Kelley invented a language blending Bantu, pidgin English and Harlem slang. William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead at 79 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z My presence was also contributing to the economic prospects of the local Bakonjo people, a Bantu ethnic group who farm the slopes of the Rwenzoris. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The Bantu term ubuntu means “I find my worth in you and you find your worth in me”, a sense of interconnection and the belief in a bond or sharing that connects all humanity. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “He was comparing the Bantu to, like, British naval recruits, guys who ate practically no fiber and they all smoked.” Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z And although intended to have scientific validity, the carefully posed portrait photographs, some dating to the early 1920s, in A. M. Duggan-Cronin’s 11-volume “Bantu Tribes of South Africa,” likewise combine fact and fantasy. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z Khoi-San is the catchall term for two groups of southern Africa’s indigenous blacks who are not speakers of Bantu languages, as the majority Zulu and Xhosa are. An Artist Colony Thrives in the South African Desert 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z That Somalis and Bantus are Muslims exacerbates the isolating factor of race; the deeper one digs, the more complicated the situation gets. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z In the early 1970s, epidemiologist A. R. P. Walker held a post at the South African Institute for Medical Research, affording easy access to Bantu people and others “pursuing a primitive manner of life.” Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Lucy, who stands nine feet tall, wears her hair in Bantu knots to convey that “Black women are stigmatized for wearing their hair in natural coils,” Browder said. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Bantu is spoken in Central Africa, Southern Africa and the African Great Lakes region, but ubuntu has been claimed by South Africa as a humanitarian objective to live by. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Her parents speak the language of the largest ethnic group in Kenya, the Bantu Kikuyu language, and they worked to preserve that heritage by conducting interviews with elders in the countryside. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z While working at the Bantu Men’s Social Center, he encountered the works of black American writers. Peter Abrahams, a South African Who Wrote of Apartheid and Identity, Dies at 97 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The Bantu, Walker knew, were almost never diagnosed with Western digestive diseases. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z As a young Senate staffer, she experimented with Bantu knots. What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z As with foot races, so with digestion: the slowest third of the Bantu were quicker than the fastest third of the Caucasians. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z For her Made-in-Italy Kiza label, she incorporates patterns from her Bantu tribe, as taught by an elder sister, into her Western tailored silhouette, the influence of the Italian family who raised her. Milan fashion gives small opening to Black Lives Matter 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z This was because, Walker assumed, the Bantu ate a shitload of insoluble fiber in the form of millet and corn porridge. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z “Zanzibar is not just one thing — Arab, Indian, Persian or Bantu. It’s what they call Swahili,” the fashion designer Farouque Abdela said. Zanzibar in the Rain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The next time it’s asked to weigh in on issues of kinky coils, Bantu knots, twist-outs and dreads, the court may have an in-house expert. What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The region was settled by Bantus from mainland Africa, then Persians, Portuguese and Arabs, each wave leaving indelible influences on the language, dress, food and religion. Zanzibar in the Rain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “When I say our, I don’t only mean Congolese citizens or Bantu peoples, I mean mankind. These stories are all about wisdom, knowledge, ethical and aesthetic principles.” The People of Mbomo Tell Their Stories 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z “It ain’t Bantu,” an older slave says, referring to an African language. Review: ‘Vazante’ Revisits Brazil’s History in Black and White 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z From 1928 to his death in 1954, he published hundreds of the best pictures in 11 volumes collectively called “The Bantu Tribes of South Africa.” Art In Review: ‘DISTANCE AND DESIRE’: ‘Encounters With the African Archive, Part I: Santu Mofokeng and A. M. Duggan-Cronin’ 2012-09-20T20:15:51Z Think of the African Bantu language full of clicks, versus European languages and their intermingled vocabularies and sounds. Did cheese lead to chatter? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The Swahili language spoken here is a composite of Bantu and Arabic, with tributes to Persian, Portuguese, English and Hindi. Zanzibar in the Rain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z In Candomblé, which mixes Yoruba, Fon and Bantu beliefs, initiations typically require people to remain secluded for around 21 days: “I had no way of contacting the outside world.” Can a Brazilian Pop Star Crack the U.S. Market? Anitta Says Yes. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Ali supposedly settled the island after purchasing it from a local Bantu king. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z By this time, it was home to countless settled Bantu communities, many of which prospered thanks to their role in connecting regional and burgeoning international trade. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Wafula shows up about an hour into the workout and stands in mud and watches, sometimes calling out encouragement in English or Luganda, the Bantu language preferred in central Uganda. Can a TikTok campaign from Africa help this teen reach the majors? 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Their female ancestors, meanwhile, were almost entirely local, with genomes resembling Bantu groups living in the region today. DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Or consider the Kiswahili language, which is Bantu in origin but borrows heavily from Indian and Middle Eastern tongues. DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Marrying Bantu women enabled Arab merchants to sink roots in African coastal communities, and their wives’ families helped them both establish commercial contacts and transact trade while they were away. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Arab incomers intermingled and mixed with the Bantu peoples, creating a unique blended language and culture in an urban, trade-based society. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Prior to that, in the 1990s, the ska artist turned pop star often wore a Hindu bindi and styled her hair in South African Bantu knots. 'I'm Japanese and I didn't know,' Gwen Stefani says when asked about Harajuku backlash 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The architecture of the “stone towns” was distinct from foreign styles, and Swahili was clearly a Bantu language, with loan words from Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, and other languages from overseas. DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Gen. Bantu Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement, said there was no need to go ahead with next week’s parliamentary debate, given the evidence against the president. Impeachment Edges Closer for South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The people of the coast came to speak Swahili, which combined the grammar of African Bantu languages with a Bantu and Arabic vocabulary. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z While the Kingdom of Aksum was in decline, the internal migration of Bantu peoples was making its way from Africa’s northwest to its east and southeast. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He helps the state’s roughly 2,000 Bantus access social services and apply their traditional agricultural acumen to a colder climate. Ukrainian Flags Are on Display All Over Maine. Why? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z He observed that what Western thinkers envisioned as a divine being, the Bantu understood as various forces, including human forces, animal forces, and mineral forces. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Since then, bills protecting natural hair styles, such as Afros, braids, locks twists and Bantu knots, have spread across the country. Mass. just banned hair discrimination. These twins helped pave the way. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The Bantu people who lived along the coast of East Africa converted to Islam over the course of a few centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Bantu brought their language, their cultural traditions, and especially the technology of ironmongering. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Libah sees the Ukrainian flags flying from farmhouses as he drives around rural Maine looking for land that can be cultivated by Bantus. Ukrainian Flags Are on Display All Over Maine. Why? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Tempels rejected the characterization of African philosophy and theology as consisting of magic, animism, and ancestor worship, instead exploring the richness of Bantu thought pertaining to individuals, society, and the divine. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Bantu Holomisa, the leader of the United Democratic Movement, wrote to the speaker of parliament demanding that the president be suspended pending the outcome of the investigation against him. South Africa's clean President Ramaphosa faces his own scandal 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Bantu pronunciations differ, but it means “a group of people acting and working together.” Review: Black photographers founded Kamoinge Workshop in 1963. Now their biggest show hits the Getty 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z These exported ivory, hides, quartz, and gems in return for cotton, glass, jewelry, and other items the Bantu people were unable to make themselves. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “You want to help someone in trouble who looks like you. Will they feel the same for an Afghan refugee or a Bantu refugee?” Ukrainian Flags Are on Display All Over Maine. Why? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Tempels described Bantu peoples as believing in a “vital force,” the source of which is God. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Yet, in recent years, the Somali Bantus have made strides. In New York, refugees revive a fading city 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z It is designed to provide protection from discrimination for people who choose to wear hair that is “tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.” Perspective | My granddaughter could still face discrimination for her natural hair 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z They retained their Islamic cultural heritage and adopted much of the Bantu language, adding Arabic words and creating the language of Kiswahili, which is today a main language of modern Tanzania. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z For her seventh-grade picture day, Kimora decided to wear her hair in Bantu knots, a hairstyle in which sections of hair are twisted and stacked on top of themselves. 6 Kids Speak Out Against Hair Discrimination 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They engaged in a more authentic study of Bantu philosophy, recording and analyzing African proverbs, stories, art, and music to illuminate what they presented as a shared worldview. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The couple, members of the Somali Bantu tribe, have covered the windows, walls and doors with colorful fabric and tapestries. In New York, refugees revive a fading city 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z As she talked about how powerful it was to watch these Black women transform into warriors, a sea of dark faces, crested with braids and fades and Bantu knots, reflected back at her. Viola Davis, Inside Out 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z As a result, centralized systems of governance emerged among the Bantu peoples in the region, particularly in the Iron Age culture of Leopard’s Kopje in Zimbabwe. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A mixture of traditional Yoruba, Fon and Bantu beliefs originating from different regions in Africa, Candomble has long been practised in Brazil, in the past often in secret. The religious movement that spread through a national team 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Variations on the term appear in many other Bantu languages, all referring to a similar concept, expressed through maxims such as “I am because we are.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Today in Africa, Bantu speakers live in a region from south of the Sahara to the tip of Africa. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he became a teacher, studying at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College and earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Africa. Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z In this area, the Bantu initially encountered the Nok people, from whom they acquired the metallurgical knowledge that enabled them to move into and later emerge from the equatorial rainforest between 500 and 1000 CE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He abandoned teaching as a career after the White-minority government, as part of its crusade to codify white superiority, passed the Bantu Education Act, consigning Blacks to poorly funded, second-rate schools. Desmond Tutu, exuberant apostle of racial justice in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He abandoned teaching as a career after the White-minority government, as part of its crusade to codify White superiority, passed the Bantu Education Act, consigning Blacks to poorly funded, second-rate schools. Desmond Tutu, exuberant apostle of racial justice in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z A Bantu language is the first language of nearly one-third of all Africans. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He taught high school for three years but resigned to protest the Bantu Education Act, which lowered education standards for Black students. Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The gradual dispersal of the Bantu throughout much of southern Africa followed. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Tutu quit teaching because the government had imposed Bantu education, which was designed to train Blacks only as laborers for whites. Desmond Tutu, cleric who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He first followed in his father's footsteps as a teacher, but abandoned that career after the passage of the Bantu Education Act in 1953 which introduced racial segregation in schools. Obituary: Desmond Tutu - South Africa's rebellious priest 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Bantu speakers were not one people, but rather a group of peoples who shared certain cultural characteristics. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The system often failed to recognize her face or mistook the Bantu knots in her hair as unauthorized recording devices, forcing her to log back in sometimes more than 25 times a day. Contract lawyers face a growing invasion of surveillance programs that monitor their work 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Bantu speakers had been migrating from this area possibly since as early as 3000 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The amendments also grant protections based on “protected hairstyles” that are associated with race, including “braids, locks, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots and afros.” Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The commune forms under the name House of Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term designating the universal boundedness of humanity, and succinctly names its shared goals as the preservation and self-care of Black people. Review: A Black commune weighs the past, present and future in 'The Inheritance' 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Because this enlarged population required more food, the earliest Bantu speakers planted more land. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Until now, Libah and other Somali Bantu families tended plots on lands they leased, at market rates, from private landowners. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Great Zimbabwe was an advanced trade-based civilization established by Bantu speakers between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the south-central African interior. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The foundation said another grantee is Maine Farmland Trust, which will buy an easement on a new location for Liberation Farms, which is a cooperative led by the Somali Bantu Community Association. Maine grants will protect hundreds of acres of land 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Even today, Black women, men and children face discrimination for either wearing their natural hair in long Afros, using wigs or extensions, wearing braids, dreadlocks, Bantu twists or other cultural styles. New Orleans considers ban on natural hair discrimination 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Eventually, the Bantu speakers worked their way around the geographical barriers of the Kalahari and Namib deserts. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Vulnerable to clan militias, about 12,000 Bantu people – an ethnic minority descended in part from slaves brought to Somalia from south-east Africa in the 19th century – fled to a refugee camp in Kenya. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Merchants purchased enslaved Bantu peoples from the interior through African intermediaries; they then shipped them to southern Iraq. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The protests are a testament to the strong influence that ancestors still play in people’s daily lives in this Central African nation, particularly within the traditional Bantu communities in western Cameroon. ‘It was so abrupt’: COVID-19 upends burial rites in Cameroon 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Writing in the comments section of the Instagram post, a user said: “Bantu knots are NOT to be worn by white people in any context, period.” Adele accused of cultural appropriation over Instagram picture 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z When the Bantu speakers settled into an area, changes occurred. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after settling in Maine, he founded the Somali Bantu Community Association, where he still serves as director, and the association still helps people with everything from reading their mail to navigating IRS audits. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Arab traders from North Africa and Iran intermingled with local Bantu populations and built a thriving trade-based civilization along the coastline between Mogadishu in modern Somalia and Sofala in Mozambique. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Bantu communities believe that deaths must be celebrated just as births and marriages are. ‘It was so abrupt’: COVID-19 upends burial rites in Cameroon 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In the photo, the "Hello" singer donned a bikini top decorated with the Jamaican flag and wore her hair in Bantu knots, a traditional African hairstyle. Adele slammed for wearing Bantu knots, Jamaican flag bikini: 'Stop it for good' 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z They had to find ways to get along with the Bantu, get out of their way, or defend their lands and way of life. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the Bantu farmers – the families tending the community plots – do not grow for income or profit. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The migrating Bantus, for example, spread their languages and ironworking technology throughout this region. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They see Fon, a Bantu language spoken by more than two million people in Benin, and also parts of Nigeria and Togo, as helping them expand their work in other markets. Training AI 'to translate mum's phone messages' 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In addition, as logging camps sprang up deep inside the forest, they attracted Bantu villagers from its periphery, who arrived to provide food and other services to the workers. How Sustainable Development Ravaged the Congo Basin 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The Bantu speakers brought new techniques of agriculture to the lands they occupied. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Libah and the Somali Bantu farmers understood this, they signed on. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z This grassland corridor allowed the previously forest-dwelling Bantu to move southward, through what had once been impenetrable tropical rainforest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mbogo learned Bantu and got through his early childhood by reading others’ lips. Rockville basketball player wants to be an example for the deaf: ‘I have to show them we can do it’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z About 4,000 years ago, the Bantu people started farming oil palm and grains. Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans’ Rise 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Although the Bantu migrations produced a great diversity of cultures, language had a unifying influence on the continent. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In September, the Little Jubba Maine Agrarian Commons bought the land, and in October, the Somali Bantu farmers began migrating to their new home. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It was likely from the Urewe that the Bantu learned the iron-forging techniques that enabled them to later produce carbon steel. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It’s possible that other groups from the area carried Bantu languages around Africa, but Reich says his team’s data should encourage researchers to explore whether the migration began elsewhere — perhaps further west, in present-day Nigeria. Ancient African genomes offer glimpse into early human history 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z But the Bantu farmers didn’t swiftly drive hunter-gatherers to oblivion. Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans’ Rise 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Beginning at least 2,000 years ago or earlier, small groups of Bantu speakers began moving to the south and east. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, the Bantu farmers will bring this tradition to their permanent land base in the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Archaeologists and historians have traced the southward thrust of the eastern stream of Bantu in the third and fourth centuries by uncovering Iron Age slag sites and related styles of pottery in Malawi and Mozambique. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t jump to the conclusions that the Bantu expansion originated somewhere else,” says Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Ancient African genomes offer glimpse into early human history 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z For one, the area today is the homeland of Bantu speakers, the majority group in western and Central Africa. DNA from child burials reveals ‘profoundly different’ human landscape in ancient Africa 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z When they moved, the Bantu speakers shared their skills with the people they met, adapted their methods to suit each new environment, and learned new customs. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn was one of the first vegetables he and about 40 other Somali Bantu families planted when they began farming in Lewiston, Maine, in 2014. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z As small clusters of Bantu advanced into modern Kenya and Tanzania, some turned toward Congo, while other groups pushed southward in the direction of southern East Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Somali Bantu man who supplied the vegetables had leased an acre southeast of Lewiston, where he grew the crops these mothers missed most: amaranth greens, African corn, bitter eggplant. Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The Bantus made pottery and forged iron, and their burgeoning populations rapidly displaced hunter-gatherers across Africa. DNA from child burials reveals ‘profoundly different’ human landscape in ancient Africa 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The Bantu people probably brought with them the technology of iron smelting. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Somali Bantu farmers shared this struggle for land security with small farmers across the US. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z By the seventh century, Bantu communities stretched from the extreme southern reaches of Somalia in the north to Natal and Eastern Cape in present-day South Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Natural styles — dreadlocks, twists, braids, Afros, Bantu knots — seem to be trending, from the red carpet to Capitol Hill. When you're black, loving your natural hair is part of loving yourself 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The word “gumbo” is considered a corruption of “tchingombo” and “ochingombo,” the Bantu language words for “okra,” an African ingredient used to thicken the soup. Made in America 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The Bantu speakers now populated much of the southern half of Africa. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Palenquero is one of the 68 languages found in Colombia and is a mix of Spanish and African Bantu languages. Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance' 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z This evidence dates to the same period of southward expansion that has been linked to the eastward early split Bantu. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z If you don’t find that fact alone to be staggering, consider this: The 576-page book blends English with a multitude of Bantu languages spoken in Zambia. ‘The Old Drift’ author Namwali Serpell shares how Zambian Afronauts inspired her debut novel 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The new policy gives African Americans the legal right to wear their hair in afros, cornrows, Bantu knots and other styles. US briefing: Bernie 2020, Rod Rosenstein and Isis recruit begs to return 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z As the Bantu speakers spread south into hunter-gatherers' lands, territorial wars often broke out. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The animal is well known and goes by the name of Mathoja, which in the Bantu language means "the one that walks with a limp". Gazing monkeys photo wins top prize 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z By 500 CE, all parts of the vast tropical rainforest had been settled by Bantu farming communities. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z There’s a mix of Bantu languages woven into the text. ‘The Old Drift’ author Namwali Serpell shares how Zambian Afronauts inspired her debut novel 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Zoo officials say his name means “little one” or “junior” in Lingala, which is a Bantu language. Western Lowland Gorilla born at zoo 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z They do not speak a Bantu language, and their culture does not reflect the influence of the Bantu-speaking peoples. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next few thousand years, the Bantu carried the mutation across much of eastern, central and southern Africa, Dr. Shriner and Dr. Rotimi conclude. How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Initially, then, Bantu farm settlements were typically confined to fertile river valleys and regions with favorable rainfall—which helps explain why they moved toward the southeast, a path that avoided the much drier southwest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z My parents speak two different Bantu languages, and even my sister and I speak different languages; so we all speak to each other in English. ‘The Old Drift’ author Namwali Serpell shares how Zambian Afronauts inspired her debut novel 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The Bantu, from West Africa, moved eastward and southward about 2,500 years ago. Tracing sickle cell back to one child 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The Bantu speakers exchanged ideas and intermarried with the people they joined. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At a showing in New York’s Times Square, Miquain Gainey wore a Basotho blanket used by the Bantu tribe in South Africa. African fashion on display at early ‘Black Panther’ shows 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Growing needs necessitated further expansion, and as the Bantu advanced into the rainforest—their path helpfully cleared with new iron tools—they began to adjust their cultivation techniques to a variety of conditions. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Dr. Thompson is now digging into archaeological sites for evidence of the Bantu arrival in Malawi, looking for tools, bones and perhaps even more DNA. Clues to Africa’s Mysterious Past Found in Ancient Skeletons 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z For example, the spread of agricultural groups speaking Indo-European or Bantu languages may have changed the structure of populations and the languages spoken across huge areas of Europe and Africa, respectively. Why Do Human Beings Speak So Many Languages? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z An estimated 240 million people in Africa speak one of the Bantu languages as their first language. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Blond and freckled, “like Pippi Longstocking”, she recalls choosing brown crayons to draw pictures of herself with dark skin and curly hair, like the Bantu women she saw in National Geographic. Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’ 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z But the Bantu did not stop at the rainforest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The move prompted Mowlid Hussein, a Somali Bantu, to cancel travel plans to see his two children from a previous marriage in Kenya. In New York refugee haven, new anxiety in age of Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Bantu speakers often get around this restriction by borrowing synonyms from other languages spoken nearby. Talking to In-laws Can Be Hard. In Some Languages, It’s Impossible. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Swahili uses Bantu basics along with Arabic and Persian words. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Around 2000, Lewiston, Maine, found itself a preferred destination for Somali Bantu refugees who were initially relocated in more urban areas around the country. America’s shrinking small towns see hope in refugees 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Like the rainforest, southern Africa was also lightly populated by foragers and hunter- gatherers, leaving vast swaths of land open for the Bantu farmers to inhabit. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Also in Mexico’s capital, a 24-year-old endangered western lowland gorilla named Bantu died of a heart attack as he was being prepared for transfer to another zoo. AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Avoidance speech is also practiced by speakers of some of the Bantu languages of southern Africa, including Xhosa and Zulu. Talking to In-laws Can Be Hard. In Some Languages, It’s Impossible. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Swahili is a Bantu language with many words borrowed from Arabic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A western lowland gorilla, Bantu, 24, was born in captivity in Mexico City's Chapultepec zoo, where he was one of the star attractions. Bantu the gorilla dies from cardiac arrest in Mexico City zoo 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Initially, the diffusion of the Bantu speakers south of the rainforest followed an easterly direction and hugged the southern and eastern edges of the rainforest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z When my older son and his friends are together, listening to them talk is like trying to decipher the clicking of the Bantu. The Seven Words I Cannot Say (Around My Children) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Some linguists think that is how click consonants found their way into Bantu speech: in words borrowed from Khoisan languages, which use clicks extensively. Talking to In-laws Can Be Hard. In Some Languages, It’s Impossible. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Over the centuries, contacts between two peoples—Bantu speakers and Arabs—led to the creation of a new people and a new language. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z However, at around 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday, after being administered a sedative, Bantu went into cardiac arrest, Mexico City's environmental ministry said in a statement. Bantu the gorilla dies from cardiac arrest in Mexico City zoo 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z When they began to settle around Lake Victoria, the Bantu acquired cattle. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Their language is more closely related to Hawaiian than to Bantu, and about half their genes can be traced to Austronesia—that is, Indonesia and the islands of the Pacific. Ancient crop remains record epic migration to Madagascar 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z All but two were Bantu speakers probably from West Central Africa, though not all from the same groups. Tracing Slaves to Their African Homelands Popularised by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela as a way to heal post-apartheid South Africa, the ancient Bantu word encapsulates the idea of shared humanity: “I am, because we all are.” 10 things Africa has given the world 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z "The Chapultepec zoo is in mourning, and deeply regrets the death of Bantu," the statement said. Bantu the gorilla dies from cardiac arrest in Mexico City zoo 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Although the areas into which the Bantu migrated were only sparsely populated, interactions with the peoples who already lived there were unavoidable. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A 2013 study, however, found that the group is genetically similar to the Malagasy: a mixture of African Bantu and Austronesian stock. Ancient crop remains record epic migration to Madagascar 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Over the past decade, the bleeding has been stanched by an infusion of Somalis from the Bantu minority group, many coming from Georgia, where they were originally resettled by the United States government. The Night the Ali-Liston Fight Came to Lewiston 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z And several of the populations were descended from the Bantu, a group that spread across Africa about 5,000 years ago. Genetic diversity of Africa revealed 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “Black Hair Flag” blends the U.S. and Confederate battle flags, with stars made of Bantu knots and stripes consisting of cornrows. VCU department chair themes art around hair 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Early on, the Bantu moved in relatively small numbers, so there were no large-scale displacements of hunter-gatherer societies. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “The teachers send home letters about the kids, but the parents can’t read them,” said Mohamed Ganiso, 33, the director of the Somali Bantu Association of Central New York in Utica. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “Why not talk about the problems in the city, why not talk about the houses that are unstable and in bad conditions, why only talk about the Somalis and Somali Bantus?” Massachusetts mayor: Stop sending my city refugees 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A prototype is open for contributions, with early entries including Myths and Legends of the Bantu, and Concepts of Social Justice in Traditional Africa . African Wikipedia aims to create online legacy of traditions and languages 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z This latter similarity is of particular note because so many of the Bantu folktales feature rabbits. ‘Mean Girls’ Is Not a Comedy. It’s Mythology. 2014-04-18T02:23:16Z Had it not been for the rainforest dwellers, the Bantu may have had a far more difficult time adjusting to the environment. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Family ties are everything, yet Sadia and her sisters have stitched together American and Somali Bantu identities. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Until the mid-20th Century, the Bantu language group, which originates in Africa, was also represented by speakers of the Sidi language used by migrants from East Africa living in western India. Ten 'big facts' about India 2014-02-18T20:16:51Z Fort Hare, over the protests of its students, was subsumed under the government policy of "Bantu education." On Religion: Mission Schools’ Ambiguous Legacy in South Africa 2013-12-27T18:35:35Z Both Swahili and the Ndebele languages belong to the Bantu family, a branch of the Niger-Congo languages spoken among a network of sub-Saharan ethnic groups. ‘Mean Girls’ Is Not a Comedy. It’s Mythology. 2014-04-18T02:23:16Z It is also likely that the Bantu acquired their cattle—or at least their cattle-herding techniques—from the Khoisan, a cattle- and goat-herding people who preceded them in southern Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But for the Bantus, there is still a sense of accomplishment — and of possibilities. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z South African MP and friend of Mr Mandela, Bantu Holomisa, describes how the former South African president longed to return to Qunu. The village where Mandela will be laid to rest 2013-12-13T11:58:13Z Bantus - who trace their origins to Tanzania and Mozambique, and are ethnically, physically and culturally distinct from Somalis - fled conflict at home in the 1990s. VIDEO: African migrants who call America's whitest state home 2012-09-11T23:42:41Z Bayon . suggest that this event was linked to the arrival of the Bantu colonists in Central Africa, which would have immediately produced large-scale deforestation due to agriculture and iron smelting. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa” 2012-08-30T18:25:26.920Z In fact, many of the words in the southern Bantu language that relate to cattle and cattle-herding practices are derived from Khoisan. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But she was worried: There is no dating in Somali Bantu culture, unless a couple are engaged. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Ubuntu isn’t only the namesake of Harvey’s project; it’s a philosophy of humanness from the Bantu language that he lives by. Disruptive Innovators: Converting Litter Into Safe Eco-Housing and Sustainable Jobs 2012-06-05T18:12:38Z They found that more Bantu ancestry translated into a taller individual, a confirmation that genes were involved with height differences. Why Pygmies Are Short: New Evidence Surprises 2012-04-27T12:45:00.853Z Therefore, the Bantu expansion alone cannot explain the increases in this index seen by Bayon . [Technical Comment] Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa” 2012-08-30T18:25:26.920Z This linguistic heritage is reinforced by the presence today of Khoisan “click” sounds in certain Bantu languages, particularly those of the south. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z She keeps Steve Madden boots in her school locker to wear under skirts that were ordered from Somali Bantu catalogs. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The Baralongs are, of course, identified with the Bantu peoples of Africa, but they come from a stock that is industrial as opposed to the military element of this race. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The researchers scanned the genomes of 67 Pygmies and 58 Bantus for genetic markers, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, throughout the genome. Why Pygmies Are Short: New Evidence Surprises 2012-04-27T12:45:00.853Z Had there been increasing deforestation and physical erosion from the Bantu expansion, less chemical weathering, not more, should have occurred. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa” 2012-08-30T18:25:26.920Z The peoples who dwelled in the rainforest had all descended from a common population, but the arrival of the more technologically advanced Bantu farmers caused them to scatter into separate groups. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Somali Bantus, however, have had a tougher time adapting. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The distribution of the military and industrial Bantu is significant, but in this latter we will consider one of the peaceable tribes. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z “We are like orphans, without a father or a mother — we are an abandoned people,” said Mr. Sadiki Bantu, in the hills of eastern Congo. In Congo, Self-Defense Can Offer Its Own Risk 2012-03-29T03:20:33Z Apart from a possible hypothesis of a massive colonization by the Bantus, the other logical explanation of such data would be the erosion of fossil soils horizons, evidence of the leaching during past climates. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa” 2012-08-30T18:25:26.920Z The Bantu were not dominant everywhere in southern Africa, however. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Ganiso, who works as a machine operator at Chobani, estimated that unemployment in the Somali Bantu community runs about 50 percent. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The military Bantu is found in possession of the most fertile regions, and it may be well to remember that they occupied the Southern extremity of Africa, contemporaneously with Europeans. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Droughts have also been correlated, historically, with warfare among tribal people, from the Maricopa of the North American Southwest to the Bantu of South Africa, according to the anthropologist Lawrence Keeley. Are We Doomed to Wage Wars Over Water? 2012-03-26T17:15:02.867Z This is in complete contradiction of the suggestion of Bayon . that Bantu expansion was the main driver of this increase in weathering. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa” 2012-08-30T18:25:26.920Z Overall, the Bantu migrations had a significant impact on Africa’s economic and cultural practices. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Harsh winters have been one of the challenges of living in this old manufacturing city in upstate New York for Sadia and her family, members of the Somali Bantu tribe. A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z It would seem that they held these grounds by right of might, and their district is in somewhat striking contrast to the regions in which the industrial Bantu are at home. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The Negro and Bantu races are all alike in this: they are extraordinarily simple-minded and impressionable. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z No, most of them are Bantus of one sort or another. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z As they migrated, the Bantu encountered different groups whose adaptations to their environments had produced innovations in plant and animal husbandry and metalworking. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Milk was drunk fresh, and not allowed to turn sour as among the Bantu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The power of the chief among the industrial Bantu is limited; first by the council of lesser chiefs, secondly by the general assemblage of the freemen of the tribe. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z A language derived partly from Arabic and partly from several African Bantu tongues came into being. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z But the Bantu is given greatly to baths, accompanied by massage, particularly in the treatment of that great West African affliction, rheumatism. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The Bantu speakers likely originated in West and Central Africa and began spreading east and south as early as 3000 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z One plausible explanation is the simultaneous arrival of the so-called Bantu people, who brought farming into the region. Farmers May Have Kicked Off Local Climate Change 3,500 Years Ago 2012-02-10T23:15:00.260Z The pursuit of the military Bantu is directed to the successful cultivation of a bare sufficiency of corn and cattle, and he pays little attention to anything which is beyond his immediate requirements. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z As it turns out, around this time Bantu farmers—an African ethnic group—had begun a large-scale expansion across Central Africa and settled in the rainforest. Are Humans to Blame for Africa's Lost Rainforests? 2012-02-09T19:02:00Z For immediately below Calabar in the Cameroon territory the true Negro meets the Bantu. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Because the regions into which they moved were only thinly populated by roving bands of hunter-gatherers, the Bantu were able to choose the most suitable land for farming. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Swahili, swa-hē′li, n. the name given to the people of Zanzibar and the opposite coast belonging to the Bantu stock, with an Arab infusion, and speaking a Bantu tongue modified by Arabic.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The combination of the military and industrial Bantu had been already broken by the character of the tribe itself. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Perhaps most importantly, archeologists have shown that the Bantu brought agriculture to the region, growing crops such as pearl millet and yams. Are Humans to Blame for Africa's Lost Rainforests? 2012-02-09T19:02:00Z This conception is, as far as I know, constant in both Negro and Bantu. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Early Iron Age Bantu settlements tended to be small, typically consisting of a dozen or so round houses encircling a livestock pen of cattle or goats. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Zulu, zoo′loo, n. a branch of the great Bantu division of the human family, belonging to South Africa, conspicuous for physical and intellectual development.—adj. pertaining to the Zulus, their language, &c. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z In Africa especially, among all the Bantu and negroid tribes whose sociology is patriarchal, there is a great work for her to do. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z To cultivate crops, the Bantu had to cut down stretches of forest, exposing the soil to weathering. Are Humans to Blame for Africa's Lost Rainforests? 2012-02-09T19:02:00Z One is the religious: in Bantu you find a great female god, who, for practical purposes, is more important than the great male god, in so far as she rules mundane affairs. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Until about the eighth century CE, the Bantu developed and exploited the resources of the more favorable areas and adapted the local environments. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In their general features these statements were largely true also for all the other tribes in the Equatorial Coast region, and for most of the interior Bantu tribes now pressing down to the Coast. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z They have been always a despised race and regarded as outcasts by the Bantu peoples. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Neumann says she and her team's excavations of forest sites corresponding to the same time period found no evidence that the Bantu helped speed the forest's decline. Are Humans to Blame for Africa's Lost Rainforests? 2012-02-09T19:02:00Z Neither can we study it well in those south and east regions where it has adopted Bantu language and culture to a certain extent. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The succession of medieval Bantu kingdoms that emerged dominated these regions economically, politically, and culturally. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And now, on this my fifth furlough, the essay on Bantu Theology has grown to the proportions of this present volume. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Throughout the day the scantily clothed Bantu workmen had been busily engaged in unloading the steelwork. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Mrs. Musame, a Somali Bantu, came to San Diego as a widow after her husband and three of her sons were gunned down. Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming 2011-10-10T01:27:33Z I venture to think that Bantu adulteration mainly takes the form of language. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Migrating originally from West Africa, the Bantu would have recognized much of the geography and climate of southern Africa: there is desert, such as the Kalahari and Namib in southwest Africa, and vast savanna. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Now Nyambi was a plucky Bantu and took no notice of this warning, but continued on his way. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The natives, unlike their Portuguese masters, had to keep hard at it, with the result that by the time "knock-off" was announced and the Bantus, resuming their calico skirt-like garments, had trooped ashore, the S.S. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z “As a Somali Bantu, you don’t go to sleep really deep,” Mr. Muya continued. Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming 2011-10-10T01:27:33Z The Negro has, moreover, not only adopted Bantu languages in some regions, such as the Mpongwe, for example, but he has also adopted to a certain extent Bantu culture. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The basin’s temperate climate and well-watered landscape encouraged the migration of San hunter-gatherers from southwestern Africa and the settlement of Bantu peoples. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z His thought of relationship was not an impossible one, for many of the Bantu Negroes have somewhat Caucasian-like features. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z In August 1905 serious disturbances broke out among the Bantu tribes in the colony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z As Razib Khan writes, the ethnography of the research area is rather rich in documenting the dehumanization of Pygmies at the hands of their Bantu neighbors. Less Than Human? 2011-09-07T16:44:10Z I am sure those of you who have lived among the true Negroes and true Bantu, will agree with me that these cultures differ materially. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The Bantu, who arrived from the north, brought with them the knowledge of ironworking, farming, and livestock herding they had acquired over generations of migrations throughout sub-Saharan Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But if you eliminate from the theology of the Bantu African its superstition, you will have very little left; for, among the religions of the world, it comes nearest to being purely a superstition. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The inhabitants of the interior may be divided into two classes, those namely of Bantu and those of Hamitic stock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z In 1996, the party ejected Bantu Holomisa, then deputy environmental affairs and tourism minister, for accusing a fellow Cabinet minister of taking a bribe. Malema Hearing May Decide Future of South African President 2011-08-30T07:50:01Z But it would be as unscientific to regard a Spaniard or a Frenchman as a full-blooded ancient Roman, as to regard many of the Negro tribes now speaking Bantu language as Bantu men. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The Shona were not the first inhabitants of the region; that distinction belongs to the small bands of hunter-gatherers who stalked game and foraged the plain in the centuries before the Bantu speakers’ arrival. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But in most of the Bantu tribes this totem idea does not exist as a worship. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z What may be called the indigenous population consists of the older Bantu races. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The Amshara lacks the idea of righteousness, the Bantu the idea of holiness. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z The plural of the tribal name is formed in the usual Bantu way, Ba-Fang. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The five hundred years between the fourth and ninth centuries witnessed the development of Bantu communities that farmed the valley and mined and worked iron. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z This hill is known as the “Bonxa,” a word which means the breast of a woman, in some of the northern Bantu dialects. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The Bantu tribes are in general peaceful agriculturists, though the Bantus of recent immigration retain the warlike instincts of the Zulus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Sometimes the translator will prefer to keep the Greek word, as in the case of baptise, but he must be careful, for batisa in Bantu means "treat some one badly." The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z His object in going to Rossdale was the acquirement of the Bantu language spoken in the vicinity. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z In what ways were the Bantu kingdoms of Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe similar and dissimilar to the West African Sahelian kingdoms? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In those days the European was quite unknown to the Bantu of South-Eastern Africa. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Under different circumstances its valley might have been the cradle of another civilisation, and another Sphinx, of Hottentot or Bantu physiognomy, might have stood, gazing through forgotten centuries, across the waste of Bushmanland. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z For their studies, the team studied the characteristics of word order in four language families: Indo-European, Uto-Aztec, Bantu and Austronesian. 'Language universals' challenged 2011-04-14T22:24:40Z If one were to ask the average inhabitant of South Africa whether the Bantu tribes have any national music, the reply would almost surely be in the negative. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z In the hands of migrating Bantus, iron technology was indispensable. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z All of the Bantu race shrink with the greatest horror from contact with a dead body, so the people drew back and gathered together in affrighted groups, to discuss the strange situation. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z This is the sole form of plastic decorative art which the Bantu practise, with the exception of the moulding of grotesque faces on their pottery, which the Hlubis and the Basuto sometimes indulge in. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z In East Africa every degree of intermingling of the Hamitic branch of the Brown race has been taking place for more than sixty centuries with negroes, both of the Sudanese and the Bantu stocks. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Nevertheless, the Bantu possesses a music of his own; but this can only be heard, as a rule, if one frequent the celebration of his tribal ceremonies. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z Around this time, East Africa witnessed a third phase of Bantu expansion, with groups moving through and settling in parts of modern Mozambique, Botswana, and eastern South Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century some of the best ideals of the age of chivalry were realised among the Bantu tribes of South-Eastern Africa. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Kishi-Kongo has the distinction of being the first Bantu tongue ever reduced to written form, the oldest known work in the language being a treatise on Christian Doctrine published in Lisbon in 1624. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Among the Bantus, on the other hand, although their culture is lower than that of the Nilotic negroes, there is more uniformity both of race and customs. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z It is, it may be stated, very unusual to find any hair on the body of a Bantu. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z During the earliest centuries of expansion, groups of Bantu arrived in regions that were only thinly populated by groups of nomadic hunter- gatherers. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Among the more important Bantu clans the last resting-place of the chief is always kept a profound secret. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z All these peoples resulting from the crossings of Negroes with Hamites now speak various forms of the same organic Bantu mother-tongue. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The Bubis are of Bantu stock and early immigrants from the mainland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z It is liberally endowed by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and has for its object the evangelisation and education of Bantu natives. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z Each of these environments requires different cultivation techniques, knowledge the Bantu acquired only after their gradual occupation of all parts of the rainforest and centuries of experimentation and adaptation. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z "Leah and Tiger" is one of the stories which can be most unhesitatingly identified as African; and, as it happens, the examples at present known to me are nearly all Bantu. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Of their speech nothing is known except that it is absolutely distinct both from the Bantu and the Bushman. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. Revolution From Within 2011-02-12T06:00:04Z The colored population includes several native tribes, more than half of which are Bantu, and various mixed races of Asiatics, descendants of freed slaves and Hottentots. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Their efforts were so effective that by the sixth century CE, Bantu farming communities had settled in virtually all parts of the tropical rainforest. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z I am not sure whether the custom exists among Negro as well as Bantu tribes. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Most of these are Bantus of the average type, fairly intelligent, industrious and specially noted for their skill in iron and copper work. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The son of a washerwoman and a tailor, Mr. Cole quit high school in 1957 at 16 as the Bantu education law meant to consign blacks to menial labor went into effect. Homecoming for Stark Record of Apartheid 2010-11-18T05:54:00Z The missionaries have been laboring for many years among the Bantu. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Indeed, Bantu oral tradition holds that it was rainforest dwellers like the Twa who taught them to adapt. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z So far, the appearances of the Spider in Bantu folk-tales are so infrequent as to be almost a negligible quantity. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z To this extent Semitism may be recognised as a factor in the constituent elements of the Bantu populations. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z It's a Bantu African tale that is good for people who aren't familiar with my work. Storyteller Odds Bodkin talks about his craft 2010-11-16T05:00:00Z Basutoland, which was annexed to Cape Colony in 1871, contains at the present time about two hundred and twenty-five thousand Bantu and six hundred Europeans. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The Bantu borrowed and adapted these over a generations-long expansion across and throughout sub-Saharan Africa, forging a package of common cultural advances that they gradually diffused among the peoples in the areas they settled. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And Mr. Jekyll's tales, so far as they can be supposed to come from Africa at all, are not Bantu. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z The Fan language has been grouped by Sir H. H. Johnston among Bantu tongues, but he describes it as so corrupt as to be only just recognisable as Bantu. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z There are 32 willing people who are fluent in Tswana, a Bantu language generally spoken around Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana. Learning a Language From an Expert on the Web 2010-07-28T21:42:00Z It formed a part of the great Bantu family, which occupies all of Central Africa extending from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In the long term, the Bantu laid a common cultural framework throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z We have mentioned the comparative absence of the Spider from Bantu folk-lore. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z But the true colour is almost a pitch black, and as they are only about four feet high they are quite distinct both from the tall Bantus and the yellowish Hottentot-Bushmen. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He is a Bantu, a traditionally agricultural people, and was included in the study to represent their ancestry. What Secrets Lie in Archbishop Tutu's Genome? 2010-02-18T22:20:00Z The Bantu tribes were healthy and vigorous, but they were rarely at peace. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In what ways did the Bantu migrations affect African civilization? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Tortoise plays a conspicuous part in the folk-lore both of Bantu and West African Negroes. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Aba is one of the numerous personal prefixes, each with its corresponding singular form, which are the cause of so much confusion in Bantu nomenclature. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The fifth person, a Bantu, is none other than Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans, Including Archbishop Tutu 2010-02-17T20:18:00Z The Hottentot tribes were constantly robbing one another of cattle, and on their eastern border were struggling in vain against the advancing Bantu. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In what ways did geography and climate affect the Bantu migration? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The exotic tales to be found in Bantu Africa come mainly from two sources—Arab and Portuguese. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z For the classification of Bantu tongues into 44 groups consult H. H. Johnston, Art. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Bantu speakers originated in West Africa and began to migrate southward some 5,000 years ago, displacing the Bushmen, who were until recently hunter gatherers. Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans, Including Archbishop Tutu 2010-02-17T20:18:00Z Most of the time every Bantu clan was at war with its nearest neighbors, whoever these might be. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z How do you think scholars use linguistic evidence to trace the movement of Bantu speakers over thousands of years? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But a comparative study of Bantu folk-lore suggests at least the possibility that they may have been developed out of animal-stories. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z For a full review of the religious beliefs of Bantu tribes see E. S. Hartland, Art. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z This Bantu-Bushman marriage was probably in the distant past since most of the rest of his genome is Bantu, the researchers said at a news conference on Wednesday. Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans, Including Archbishop Tutu 2010-02-17T20:18:00Z The Swazis are regarded as the bravest of all the Bantu tribes, and were the stanch friends of the early emigrant farmers. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z It was also assumed that the process took the form of conquering bands of Bantu speakers who subjugated or even annihilated those they came into contact with. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Archbishop Tutu is a Bantu, traditionally an agricultural people, and said he was related to the San, Khoisan or Bushmen, through his mother. 2010-02-17T18:01:00Z The Gallas, who have crossed the Tana and here encroached on Bantu territory, have reminiscences of a higher civilisation and apparently of Christian traditions and observances, derived no doubt from Abyssinia. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The inhabitants belong to the Bantu stock, and among them are a dwarfish people, the Obongo, said to be about 4� feet high at most. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Abunda, a Bantu race of Angola, living on the coastlands and on the terraces rising towards the interior, and divided into 'highlanders' and 'lowlanders'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Rhodes had retrieved his promise, and no one who has studied and lived amongst the Bantu will question that the action taken was both beneficent and wise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The languages of the various Bantu tribes have strong affinities. Tales of South Africa Bantu: generally large, black, and prominent, but also of regular Hamitic type; Negrillo and Bush.-Hot.: rather small, deep brown and black. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z DONGA, a Bantu word for a ravine, narrow watercourse or gully formed by the action of water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Among the Bantu race nothing is more disconcerting than to be caught lying, and these two scions of it felt extremely foolish accordingly. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The Bantus speedily gathered, and played like children about the dead bodies of the two beasts, which had been placed side by side. The Blind Lion of the Congo They will be the schools of Bantu, Berber, Sudanese and all the other peoples of the land. Black Man's Burden It follows that the leavening element, by which the southern Negro populations have been diversely modified throughout the Bantu lands, could have been drawn only from the Hamitic and Semitic peoples of the north-east. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Bantu peoples were pushing southwards, ousting and exterminating Hottentot tribes; these were at the same time exercising a continuous pressure on the Bush people. Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919 And antagonize all the Arab hating Bantu in Africa? Border, Breed Nor Birth Three of the Bantus had run up, and were standing within a few yards of him. The Blind Lion of the Congo Such a mad idea to travel hundreds of miles to see a few old remains of a doubtful edifice, built by Bantus! or is the plural Bantams?... The Rhodesian Even in Damaraland, which is mainly Bantu territory, there are interminglings of long standing that have given rise to much ethnical confusion. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Such seems to be the nature of certain images among the Western Bantu,713 and this may have been the case with the images of the Egyptian Khem and Osiris and similar deities. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The root-words cited are not a hundredth part of the total number of root-words which are practically common to all the spoken dialects of Bantu Africa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" When that worthy appeared he was instructed to make all arrangements and select a score of the best Bantus as porters. The Blind Lion of the Congo The Boer frontiersman, with his aggressive habits and ingrained contempt for a dark-skin, disintegrated the Bantu mass before we were ready to undertake the work of reconstruction. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 At the same time we may detect certain relations, not to the Nilotic, but the Bantu tongues. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Beyond taboos on sacred objects there is nothing in the Bantu territory that clearly indicates a totemistic organization of society. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV We have no clue at present to the exact birth-place of the Bantu nor to the particular group of dialects or languages from which it sprang. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" By utilizing the natives of Mvita's village and also the Bantu porters as beaters, a bloodless hunt was held. The Blind Lion of the Congo The remaining member of my retinue was a Bantu boy named ’Ngulubi, about sixteen years of age, who acted as voorlouper, or leader of the front span of oxen of the team. Through Veld and Forest An African Story Bantu: moderately or not at all prominent; Negrillo and Bush.-Hot.: very prominent, often extremely so, forming a triangular face with apex at chin. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Divining; article "Bantu" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, p. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The sixteen original prefixes of the Bantu languages are given below in the most archaic forms to be found at the present day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Concluding that if he paid no attention to the chattering natives he would remain quiet for a finishing shot, Burt and Mvita ran onward, the chief displaying no fear whatever, unlike the Bantus. The Blind Lion of the Congo But I could make nothing of it, nor could Piet, whereupon ’Mfuni came forward, and presently he contrived to hit upon a kind of Bantu dialect which the woman understood. Through Veld and Forest An African Story Best known are the Dwalas of the Camerún estuary, physically typical Bantus with almost European features, and well-developed calves, a character which would alone suffice to separate them from the true Negro. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Sráhmandázi.—This ballad is founded on materials given to the author by the late Miss Mary Kingsley on her return from her last visit to the Bantu peoples of West Africa. Poems: New and Old In fact, the persistence of this concord, which exists in almost every known Bantu language in connexion with the 10th prefix, shows that prefix to have been in universal use at one time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" They now advanced more cautiously as they saw the Bantus in front gesturing to them and in another moment sighted two giraffes standing in an open glade ahead. The Blind Lion of the Congo Fortunately, I possessed a very fair knowledge of the Bantu dialect that she seemed to understand, and, using this, I did my utmost to soothe her and calm her fears. Through Veld and Forest An African Story Support is given to this view by the curious distribution of the two chief Bantu names of the "Supreme Being," to which incidental reference has already been made. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z These live on the east side, and are known as Wa-Hadimu Bantus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 There is too much evidence in favour of this prefix having been originally Pa- or Mpa-pa to enable us to give it any other form in reconstructing the Bantu mother-tongue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Why wouldn't it be better," suggested Burt, "to dig a pit like those Bantus do? The Blind Lion of the Congo A terrible feud between the Bantu tribes was then causing much violence and blood-spilling, and the Zulu chief Moselekalse, having driven the Bechuanas beyond the Limpopo, had established the kingdom of the Matabele. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Their own Bantu tongue is widespread and spoken with slight dialectic differences as far as the Nana affluents. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Attention is directed to the Bushman, the Hottentot, and the Bantu as each figured in South Africa. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Yet in the most archaic Bantu dialects to the north of the Victoria Nyanza it is nowhere found in the form of Pa-. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" As Critch was also anxious to save the python skin, two of the Bantus were left to take it into camp while the party proceeded north. The Blind Lion of the Congo Mention need only be made here of the Bantu tribes of Africa, whose splendid organization astonished the British, and the Eskimos. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles The date of the Bantu migrations is much disputed. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The second chapter on the distribution and character of the Bantu languages is of greatest interest to the layman and to the general anthropologist. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The Bantu verb consists of a practically unchangeable root which is employed as the second person singular of the imperative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Critch's bearer was a Bantu, who handed over the heavy gun but refused absolutely to advance. The Blind Lion of the Congo Even the Bantu people, who probably came later and were certainly more advanced, for they carried on some little cultivation of the soil, remained at a low level. Impressions of South Africa It would almost seem as if we had here a transition between the northern Sudanese and the southern Bantu groups in the very region where such transitions might be looked for. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The archaic Bantu seem first to have moved eastward, toward the Mountain Nile and the Great Lakes. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 It must not be supposed for a moment that all the people who speak Bantu languages belong necessarily to a special and definite type of negro. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The Bantus took out their knives and while Burt transmitted in French the orders of his chum they set to work. The Blind Lion of the Congo And in one regard the Bantu race shows a kind of strength which the Red Indians and Polynesians lack. Impressions of South Africa Bantu: much lower than the Negroid Sudanese, but higher than the true Negro; principally cattle rearers, practising simple agriculture; Negrillo and Bush.: lowest grade, hunters; Hot.: nomadic herdsmen. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z But on the whole they represent so much the average negro type that 'Bantu' is still in favor as a physical definition among craniologists. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Some tribes speaking Bantu languages are dwarfs or dwarfish, and belong to the group of Forest Pygmies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The Bantus had observed the affair and when they saw the rhino fall, ran forward with high glee, while just over the crest of the rise appeared the caravan. The Blind Lion of the Congo How long the various Bantu tribes have been in South Africa is a question on which no light has yet been thrown, or can, indeed, be expected. Impressions of South Africa Here may possibly be discovered a link between the Sudanese, Teda-Daza, and Bantu linguistic groups. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The first chapter sketches the history of research into the Bantu laguages. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The Muscovy duck, for instance, is pretty well distributed throughout Bantu Africa, but it has no common widely-spread name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The Bantus flung their spears, but the beast dashed them aside and not even the heavy, jacketed bullets stopped him. The Blind Lion of the Congo As the Bantu vary in aspect, so do they also in intelligence. Impressions of South Africa All this is curious enough; but the important point is that it probably gives us the clue to the enigmatic alliterative system of the Bantu languages as explained in Ethnology, p. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The original Bantu invaders found before them in Central and South Africa other peoples—Negroes of different types, pygmies, Bushmen, and Hottentots. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The Bantu, moreover, remained faithful to a great number of roots like "fowl," which referred to animals, plants, implements and abstract concepts known to them in their original home. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Mr. Wallace and Critch soon came in and all four went toward the thicket while a number of Bantus armed with spears and shields went around to drive out the animals. The Blind Lion of the Congo Arab sheiks then held a few of the coast villages, ruling over a mixed race, nominally Mohammedan, and trading with the Bantu tribes of the interior. Impressions of South Africa There is one point in which the Bantu somewhat unaccountably compare favourably with the Sudanese. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z This ponderous volume on the Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages is the first part of a work which represents the fruit of many years of study of multitudinous African languages and dialects. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 It is in some features unusually divergent from the typical Bantu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The Bantus replied with a yell of defiance. The Blind Lion of the Congo This Bantu word is said to denote a stone building, but has often been used to describe the residence of a great chief, whatever the materials of which it is constructed. Impressions of South Africa |
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