In Bantu populations in east and west Africa, the biggest signal of evolutionary selection was in a cluster of genes that help the immune system identify pathogens (called the HLA complex).

INDEX: People on the Move Armed with iron smelting technology the Bantu of west and central Africa dispersed across the continent, changing its linguistic and cultural landscape.

About 4,000 years ago, the Bantu people started farming oil palm and grains. ... Many thousands of years passed before a different group of the West Africans gave rise to the Bantu people.

The Bantu people originated from West Central Africa, specifically in what is now Cameroon and Nigeria. Some theories suggest that they came from the highland regions of this area.

Analysis of a large data set sheds light on the migrations of African Bantu-speaking peoples across the continent. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

Bantu people came from Congo, genetic data shows. However, ... About 4,000 years ago, a band of Bantu speakers left West Africa and moved to colonise half of Africa.

In the late 1990’s, the U.S. government designated ethnic Bantu people as a priority for resettlement. It was then that the journey eventually leading them to Maine began. Seynab admits adapting to ...