The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct Indigenous African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area from West Africa, to Central Africa, Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.
They are Black African speakers of the Bantu languages, which several hundred indigenous ethnic groups speak. The Bantu live in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.
Black South Africans were at times officially called "Bantu" by the apartheid regime. Today, however, Bantu is no longer in wide use as a description of black South African people.
Although most historians would agree on the general occurrence of the Bantu migrations across Africa, the precise timings, motivations, routes, and consequences are all still being debated. The Bantu were agriculturalists who spoke various dialects of the Bantu language.
The Bantu peoples comprise over 500 different ethnic groups who speak related languages belonging to the Bantu language family. These peoples inhabit vast areas of Africa south of the equator, from Central and East Africa to the southern regions of the continent.
Welcome to the world of Bantu-speaking Africans—over 400 unique ethnic groups, speaking a stunning array of languages and living across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa. To call the Bantu a “tribe” would be like calling all of Europe “one neighborhood.”
The Bantu were a group of people who spoke related languages belonging to the Bantu language family, a branch of the larger Niger-Congo language group. Around 3,000 years ago, they began leaving their original homeland, believed to be somewhere in present-day Cameroon or the borderlands of Nigeria.