The Bantu expansion

Examples of The 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.
  • Kilwan traders from the coast encouraged the development of market towns in the Bantu-dominated highlands of what are now Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

• 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.
  • Individual ethnic groups within the Fang include the Fang proper, the Ntumu, the Mvae, and the Okak.

• Social Cognition

  • The higher the salience of an object, the more likely that schemas for that object will be made accessible.
  • 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.
  • The typically Eastern holistic thinking style is a type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context and the ways in which objects relate to each other.

• 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 German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland.
  • Originally, the language of state in the Bamum kingdom was that of the Tikar.
  • The Bamum developed an extensive artistic culture at their capital of Fumban at the beginning of the 20th century.

• 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. 
  • The subjugation of the Betsimisaraka in the 19th century left the population relatively impoverished.
  • The Merina emerged as the politically dominant group in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries.

• Namibia

  • In the 9th century, the Damara entered 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.
  • Eventually, warfare over land control between the Herero and the Oorlams, as well as between the two of them and the Damara, who were the original inhabitants of the area, broke out.
  • But white settlement in the area was limited, and neither the Dutch nor the British penetrated far into the country.

• 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.
  • Before the early twentieth century, there was no single name in Africa for the group; in the earliest documented ethnonyms of the seventeenth century, those residing in the Kingdom of Kongo called themselves Esikongo (singular Mwisikongo); those in the Kingdom of Loango called themselves Bavili (singular Muvili), and in other parts of the Kikongo-speaking world they had different names as well.
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  • The purpose of the nailing is to "awaken" and sometimes to "enrage" the nkisi to the task in hand.
  • The most common place for storage was the belly, though such packs are also frequently placed on the head or in pouches surrounding the neck.

• Thermal Stresses

  • Thermal expansion is the change in size or volume of a given mass with temperature.
  • 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?
  • The dependence of thermal expansion on temperature, substance, and length is summarized in the equation

• 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.
  • For a solid, we can ignore the effects of pressure on the material, thus the volumetric thermal expansion coefficient can be written:
  • 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