Early Central Africa

Early Central Africa

In Central Africa, the Bantu migration came full circle. By 1000 BC western Bantu-speaking farmers had crossed the Congo River and settled in what is now Angola. Approximately 1,500 years later, eastern Bantu-speaking groups—descended from groups that had spread throughout East Africa—met and intermingled with their distant relatives in what are now Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Zambia.

 

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