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shymexx: The Ijaws, Tivs, Igbo's, Ibibios and Cross River are pro-bantu.

And all the other tribes in present day West Africa are Chadic, Nilotic and Cushitic tribes - they all migrated from Northern Africa and the Nile region. The Bamileke's of Cameroun also belong to this group.

This isn't about linguistics - it's about DNA.

Let the E1b1a and E-V38 haplogroup explain further.

The above tribes are most likely proto-bantu which means their group splintered from a similar population as the bantu.

Linguistic evidence points to this however E1b1a-Ev38 is not a bantu haplogroup as this haplogroup stretches out to non bantu west African groups as well. It is more a less a dominant male haplogroup in Africa.

shymexx: I know there are still some bantu's in Nigeria, however, the bantu migration/expansion started with the arrival of the stronger Nilotic and Cushitic people in West Africa around 2000BC to 1000BC. Hence why they decided to move towards areas dominated by the weaker Pygmies.

You can add yours if you have any intelligent post to contribute...trolls, please stay away from this thread.

I question your above premise about bantu movements being caused by invading nilotic or cushitic peoples, no evidence. The movements form west to east and then down south would most likely be results of changing climates, wars, squabbles for cattle grazing land and the likes.

The pygmies and khoisan also would have nothing to do with the movements as they did not wipe out these populations but more less integrated with them.

This is quite evident in southern Africa where most bantu ethnic groups are phenotypically similar to old khoisan peoples and very likely incorporated many click sounds into their languages.



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