Nearly all of the people are Africans, most belonging to Bantu groups.

Batoufam is also a language and is part of the Bantu group of languages.

Duala is part of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo language family.

Other Bantu ethnic groups make up the third largest with 2 to 5%.

Slaves, taken during raids on the weaker Bantu groups of the south, were traded to North Africa.

The central Bantu groups which comprised most of the Kongo kingdom passed on status through matrilineal succession.

This indicates a much more recent common ancestry for the first Bantu group that spread and settled across the region.

More than 98 per cent of the Zambians are black Africans who belong to Bantu groups.

The town is predominantly populated by the Meru people, a Bantu ethnic group.

In the southern states you find the influence of the Bantu groups, and this is where all the intermingling starts.