Bantu expansion

(noun)

A postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group. Attempts to trace the exact route of the migrations, to correlate it with archaeological evidence and genetic evidence, have not been conclusive. The Bantu traveled in two waves, and it is likely that the migration of the Bantu-speaking people from their core region in West Africa began around 1000 BCE.

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Examples of Bantu expansion in the following topics:

  • The Bantu Migration

    • The Bantu expansion, or a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group, originated from the adjoining regions of Cameroon and Nigeria about 3,000 years ago, eventually reaching South Africa around 300 CE.
    • The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group.
    • It seems likely that the expansion of the Bantu-speaking people from their core region in West Africa began around 1000 BCE.
    • Archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and environmental evidence all support the conclusion that the Bantu expansion was a long process of multiple human migrations.
    • The Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to Central, Southern, and Southeast Africa, regions they had previously been absent from.

  • The Swahili Culture

    • As with the Swahili language, Swahili culture has a Bantu core and has also borrowed from foreign influences.
    • This Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to central, southern, and southeastern Africa, regions they had previously been absent from.
    • The Swahili people are mainly united under the mother tongue of Kiswahili, a Bantu language. 
    • However, archaeologist Felix Chami notes the presence of Bantu settlements straddling the Southeast African coast as early as the beginning of the 1st millennium.
    • It is the mixture of Perso-Arab and Bantu cultures in Kilwa that is credited for creating Swahili as a distinctive East African culture and language.

  • Fang and Kota

    • The Fang and Bakota (or Kota) are Bantu ethnic groups from the region of Gabon.
    • The Bakota (or Kota) are a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of Gabon.
    • The Fang (or Fan) are a Bantu group related peoples who inhabit the rain forest regions of Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
    • The Fang are generally thought to be the largest of the Bantu speaking peoples in Gabon.

  • Social Cognition

    • For example, one study interviewed a Scottish settler and a Bantu herdsman from Swaziland and compared their schemas about cattle.
    • Because cattle are essential to the lifestyle of the Bantu people, the Bantu herdsman's schemas for cattle were far more extensive than the schemas of the Scottish settler.
    • The Bantu herdsmen was able to distinguish his cattle from dozens of others, while the Scottish settler was not.

  • Cloth Production in Bamum

    • The Bamum people are a Bantu ethnic group of Cameroon with around 215,000 members.
    • The Mbum, a part-Bantu ethnic group from northeast Cameroon, founded the kingdom at the end of the 14th century; its capital was the ancient walled city of Fumban.

  • The Kingdoms of Madagascar

    • Over the past 2,000 years, Madagascar has received waves of settlers of diverse origins, including Austronesian, Bantu, Arab, South Asian, Chinese, and European populations.
    • Centuries of intermarriages created the Malagasy people, who primarily speak Malagasy, an Austronesian language with Bantu, Malay, Arabic, French, and English influences.
    • Most of the genetic makeup of the average Malagasy, however, reflects an almost equal blend of Austronesian and Bantu influences, especially in coastal regions. 

  • Kongo

    • The Bakongo, or the Kongo people (Kongo: "hunters"), also referred to as the Congolese, are a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Congo Brazzaville) to Luanda, Angola.

  • Namibia

    • It is believed that they separated themselves early on from their Bantu brothers of Southern and Central Africa and moved to Southwest Africa.
    • Both groups belonged to the Bantu nation.

  • Thermal Stresses

    • Solids also undergo thermal expansion.
    • What are the basic properties of thermal expansion?
    • In a thermometer, for example, the expansion of alcohol is much greater than the expansion of the glass containing it.
    • What is the underlying cause of thermal expansion?
    • Thermal stress is created by thermal expansion or contraction.

  • Volume Expansion

    • The volumetric thermal expansion coefficient is the most basic thermal expansion coefficient. illustrates that, in general, substances expand or contract when their temperature changes, with expansion or contraction occurring in all directions.
    • The subscript p indicates that the pressure is held constant during the expansion.
    • This is an expansion of 0.2%.
    • For isotropic material, and for small expansions, the linear thermal expansion coefficient is one third the volumetric coefficient.
    • Compare the effects of the pressure on the expansion of gaseous and solid materials