There is evidence that the Bantu ancestors of the modern Swahili ... environmental stress and population increase in West Africa, forcing people to move. It is important to realise that these ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

The Coastal Bantu tribes include: The Bantu people originated from West Central Africa, specifically in what is now Cameroon and Nigeria. Some theories suggest that they came from the highland ...

Bantu is the word widely used as a description of a body of people originally based in west or central Africa who, over the course of three thousand years, moved to populate east and southern regions.