Bantu

[ US /ˈbæntu/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
  2. a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture
    the Bantu population of Sierra Leone
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  • There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans. Archive 2008-05-01
  • Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
  • The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
  • In the case of Cquila there is a distinct suggestion of the orthographies of Southern Bantu languages like Zulu.
  • Maduna apparently called Tshishonga a "dunderhead" and a "relic of the bantustans". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent Tacit. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Like many of their Bantu ancestors, they appear to have given emphasis to the predominance of one's mother's matriclan. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
  • Saya juga mohon bantuan dan petunjuk, di mana boleh saya rujuk jersi-jersi semua team dalam liga malaysia musim 08-09 atau 07-08 utk membina jersi bagi FIFA09. saya dah usaha google tetapi setakat ini hanya terjumpa blog awak. Arsenal away shirts 2008-09 campaign by Nike
  • The city was run by a white council, the black township was run by the government, the Department of Bantu Administration.
  • Cadres with professional and technical skills should also be in filtrated into the bantustans in order to create underground units. African National Congress National Consultative Conference
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