(The Shona are Bantu people of Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique.) Garlake, for his part, feels the word more likely derives from dzimba woye, "venerated houses," a term usually reserved for chiefs ...

Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

Listen here to singing by the Kalahari people, descendants of the early communities displaced by the Bantu "The question concerning whether or not the Bantu migration actually occurred will await ...

for her knowledge of Bantu tongues is probably unique, and beyond doubt these acquirements have greatly facilitated her researches into the mythology of the people dealt with in this work.

There were 950 eligible people in the rural (Masai, 350 and rural Bantu, 630) and 1050 in the urban community. All data were computerised, and a random list of 160 Masai, 440 rural Bantu and 600 urban ...

It is not known exactly how this transmission of knowledge and expertise took place, but it is believed to be linked to a mass movement of people across the continent, known as the 'Bantu migration.' ...

Their languages include at least five groups. The bulk of the tribes are Nilotic, though some show Negro or Bantu affinities. Had the author lived to complete his work, some sections might ...