It seems likely that the expansion of the Bantu-speaking people from their core region in Cameroon began around 1000 BC.
About 2,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people began to arrive from western Africa in a series of migrations.
Pressures created by Europeans led the Zulu first to make room for themselves by driving out other Bantu-speaking peoples.
In far southwestern Angola, three categories of Bantu-speaking peoples have been distinguished.
How did a Jewish priestly male chromosome come to be found in a black, Bantu-speaking people that looks very much like its southern African neighbors?
The people of these mountains are mostly Bantu-speaking people who moved into the area from the north a thousand years ago, displacing the original Khoisan people.
Bantu-speaking peoples of the Congo.
Lake Kyoga forms the northern boundary for the Bantu-speaking peoples, who dominate much of east, central and southern Africa.
By the 13th century, groups of Bantu-speaking people started moving southwards from central Africa and encroached on the indigenous San population.
Between the 1st and 5th centuries CE, Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from farther north and west.