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Was There a Single Bantu Tribe or Migration? - The Four-Thousand-Year Spread of Bantu-Speaking Communities | Sleepy Facts About History
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The most consequential transformation in African history began not with an invading army, but with families packing round-bottomed pots, gathering yam cuttings, and moving a few days downriver. Over four thousand years, this gradual process carried Bantu languages across a third of the continent. This episode explores how linguists, archaeologists, and geneticists reconstruct this immense journey without written records, tracing the movement from a linguistic homeland in the…
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