And like too many recent writers, Mr. Mostert lauds the "value common to the Bantu speakers and called ubuntu, humanness," which seems a little patronizing.

About 5,000 years ago, Bantu speakers in western Africa who cultivated the yam started spreading out from their homeland.

There is also another center of fish avoidance in Southern Africa, among mainly Bantu speakers.

Bantu speakers originating in the Cameroonian highlands were among the first groups to move out before other invaders.

Kavirondo is the general name of two distinct groups of ethnic groups, the Bantu speakers and the Nilotic speakers.

From the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there were two major areas of frictional contact between the white settlers and the Bantu speakers in Southern Africa.

Traditionally, Bantu speakers were not territorially minded like the Europeans, but rather group-related.

The Austronesians introduced banana and rice cultivation, and the Bantu speakers introduced cattle and other farming practices.

The Bantu speakers of East Africa are believed to have originated from the Congo basin and in precolonial times "utu" was the main philosophy governing them.

Bantu speakers are also known as "people of the woods" (a derivative from the word 'kitengo' meaning "dense forest").