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The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Nobody: 11:03am On Apr 16, 2013 |
Current scholarly understanding places the ancestral proto-Bantu homeland near the southwestern modern boundary of Nigeria and Cameroon ca. 4,000 years ago (2000 B.C.), and regards the Bantu languages as a branch of the Niger–Congo language family.[3] This view represents a resolution of debates in the 1960s over competing theories advanced by Joseph Greenberg and Malcolm Guthrie, in favor of refinements of Greenberg's theory. Based on wide comparisons including non-Bantu languages, Greenberg argued that Proto-Bantu, the hypothetical ancestor of the Bantu languages, had strong ancestral affinities with a group of languages spoken in Southeastern Nigeria. He proposed that Bantu languages had spread east and south from there, to secondary centers of further dispersion, over hundreds of years. A Kikuyu woman in Kenya Using a different comparative method focused more exclusively on relationships among Bantu languages, Guthrie argued for a single central African dispersal point spreading at a roughly equal rate in all directions. Subsequent research on loanwords for adaptations in agriculture and animal husbandry and on the wider Niger– Congo language family rendered that thesis untenable. In the 1990s Jan Vansina proposed a modification of Greenberg's ideas, in which dispersions from secondary and tertiary centers resembled Guthrie's central node idea, but from a number of regional centers rather than just one, creating linguistic clusters.[4] 1 = 2000–1500 BC origin 2 = ca.1500 BC first migrations 2.a = Eastern Bantu, 2.b = Western Bantu 3 = 1000–500 BC Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu 4–7 = southward advance 9 = 500 BC–0 Congo nucleus 10 = 0–1000 AD last phase[5][6][7] It is unclear when exactly the spread of Bantu-speakers began from their core area as hypothesized ca. 5,000 years ago. By 3,500 years ago (1500 B.C.) in the west, Bantu-speaking communities had reached the great Central African rain forest, and by 2,500 years ago (500 B.C.) pioneering groups had emerged into the savannahs to the south, in what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia. Another stream of migration, moving east, by 3,000 years ago (1000 B.C.) was creating a major new population center near the Great Lakes of East Africa, where a rich environment supported a dense population. Movements by small groups to the southeast from the Great Lakes region were more rapid, with initial settlements widely dispersed near the coast and near rivers, due to comparatively harsh farming conditions in areas farther from water. Pioneering groups had reached modern KwaZulu- Natal in South Africa by A.D. 300 along the coast, and the modern Northern Province (encompassed within the former province of the Transvaal) by A.D. 500.[8] A Makua mother and child. The Makua are the largest Bantu group in Mozambique, a predominantly Bantu country. Before the expansion of farming and herding peoples, including those speaking Bantu languages, Africa south of the equator was populated by neolithic hunting and foraging peoples. Some of them were ancestral to modern Central African forest peoples (so-called Pygmies) who now speak Bantu languages. Others were proto-Khoisan- speaking peoples, whose few modern hunter-forager and linguistic descendants today occupy the arid regions around the Kalahari desert. Many more Khoekhoe and San descendants have a Coloured identity in South Africa and Namibia, speaking Afrikaans and English. The small Hadza and Sandawe populations in Tanzania comprise the other modern hunter- forager remnant in Africa. Early Iron Age findings in eastern and southern Africa http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_peoples |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Nobody: 11:23am On Apr 16, 2013 |
why have the world down played this important finding? The Bantus over 220 milion people are ancient migrants from igbo land. They are indeed igbos maybe the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter , untill the lions have their own Historians 1 Like |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Bazil(m): 10:34pm On Apr 16, 2013 |
Ure on crack and wikipedia is not a credible source!!! |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by OkparaIgbo: 10:40pm On Apr 16, 2013 |
Thankgodifeduba: why have the world down played this important finding? The Bantus over 220 milion people are ancient migrants from igbo land. They are indeed igbos Very interesting read. And like you said, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter until the lions get their own mouth piece. No wonder Historians and history as a subject has been so much mocked in Africa because I'm certain the imperialists knew the danger of African's learning of their history and deciding to take a stand. But thanks for this knowledge and as they say "Knowledge is Power" and "Reality is false" 2 Likes |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Abagworo(m): 12:46am On Apr 17, 2013 |
Are Igbos Bantu or semi-Bantu. What I've read is that some Igbos are Bantu while others are not. Maybe the Southeast here refers to the real geographical Southeast of Nigeria which is around Calabar. Igboland is geographically South-central and divided into two unequal parts by River Niger. 1 Like |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Nobody: 9:04pm On Apr 17, 2013 |
Abagworo: Are Igbos Bantu or semi-Bantu. What I've read is that some Igbos are Bantu while others are not. Maybe the Southeast here refers to the real geographical Southeast of Nigeria which is around Calabar. Igboland is geographically South-central and divided into two unequal parts by River Niger.igboland is south east nigeria. Why are you changing clear history? 2 Likes |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Nobody: 9:08pm On Apr 17, 2013 |
they write up is from wikipedia and constantly updated. It said south east Nigeria which is igboland 1 Like |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Abagworo(m): 11:49pm On Apr 17, 2013 |
Thankgodifeduba: igboland is south east nigeria. Why are you changing clear history? Igboland is not Southeast Nigeria but Southeast was just chosen as a name for the 5 predominantly Igbo speaking States as a zone. Southeast is more of Akwa-Ibom, Cross river, Adamawa with parts of Abia and Ebonyi. 3 Likes |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by Nobody: 10:58am On Apr 18, 2013 |
Abagworo:mind you that even in the so called south south we have igbos e.g ikwere, anioma and in bayselsa. What we have formally is eastern nigeria |
Re: The Bantu people descended from the Igbos of Nigeria: by hydraa(m): 9:41pm On Jun 13, 2017 |
southeast nigeria is not igboland but parts of crossrivers and western cameroun . dont mix it up, Igbos are not bantu but some parts of cross rivers ,adamawa ,benue ,taraba have bantu migrants , even as of 1999 some were still being discovered 2 Likes 1 Share |
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