onila:
their physical features are clearly east African

Bifwoli:
Wow,that map tells it all.Our great bantu people's rule vast areas and control much of the wealth of sub Saharan Africa.God truly loves us Bantus that he gave us so much land with so many resources.

Nayah:
Proud Bantu

Fulaman198:


Doesn't that depend on that ethnic group.....

muafrika:
And beautiful too.

Nayah:
[/quote] Like wise. [quote author=Nayah post=28242624]

muafrika:
Bantu beauty, DR Congo..

(Kofi Olomide's dance queens,)


Courtesy, Lusakatimes.com

naijaboiy:

hello

BluIvy:
In all honesty when you talk natural beauty no make up and weave. The Bantus take it all in Black Africa. All the others are bleached, weave hatted with re-drawn mud packed faces. You would never recognise them the next morning. With Ghana as an exception, love Ghana's originality Black beauties un touched skin colour.

And that is the truth!

osystein:


What physical features are those? Bantu is a language group, not physical features.

Seems like you don't know the people you're always hating on.

Here are the regions that speak a Bantu language.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1783184_1655365nigercongomappng0f4b1f20e1f41579e52e02f48f91e9b8_pngfaf187d2afbb06329e3e7b09d9629fc7

muafrika:
Thats right. The Bantus practiced assimilation and made leagues with the tribes they encountered rather than their total annihilation or perpetual animosity. The further they moved, the more tribes were assimilated. The Eastern Bantus assimilated most of the short statured tribes who occupied the region before them, from whom they get some physical features like the prominent forehead/receding hair line, rounded lips and beautiful large eyes. Like the Sukuma beauty above. The average height also gradually decreases eastward for the same reason, with a few exceptions.

muafrika:
I have always thought that Ghanaians have Bantu features. I think they are related.

BlackKenichi:


Exactly! There is no such thing as typical Bantu features. When the Bantu Expansion took place (about 4000 years ago) they met and assimilated different African peoples. This is why there isn't a unified bantu look and bantus can even be distinguished genetically as well. The Bantus in East Africa have a lot of Cushitic (they used to occupy as far as Southern Tanzania) and Nilotic (like in Uganda and Western Kenya) admixture. The Bantus around the Central African rainforest absorbed quite a bit of "Pygmy" genetics. Southern African Bantus have a lot of Khoisan/Bushmen genes.


Bantus are genetically West African.

BlackKenichi:
Bantu beauties with clear Nilotic admixture/features

Nilotic Reference Points:
Apajok Wal - South Sudanese Nilote


Ajuma Nasenyana Kenyan Nilote (Turkana, I believe)


Now for "Title Post"
Eva Ndachi - I think she's a Luhya/Luyia


Desire Luzinda - Ugandan Bantu


Juliana Kanyomozi

Fulaman198:
If this thread gets trolled by you know who, please let me know. I know that he is always talking about how Somalis are better than Bantus, but I will ban him from the culture section. Carry on with your thread please.

muafrika:
You are right. East Africa is a meeting point of Nilotes, Cushites, Bantus and even pygmy tribes, beside other races. The first two are pure Nilotes.

BluIvy:
In all honesty when you talk natural beauty no make up and weave. The Bantus take it all in Black Africa. All the others are bleached, weave hatted with re-drawn mud packed faces. You would never recognise them the next morning. With Ghana as an exception, love Ghana's originality Black beauties un touched skin colour.

And that is the truth!

axum:



The Horn of Africa is Cushitic, there is no meeting point. We do not mix. Its like saying Asia is a meeting point for Arabs, Chinese, Indians, Turks, Europeans.

muafrika:
Wasn't referring to Somalia.