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The Bantu Civilization of Southern Africa
Covers the history of the Bantu people, from their origins in Nigeria several centuries before Christ to the great kingdoms of Kongo, Luba, and Lunda just several hundred years ago.
The Bantu Languages
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of...
The Prehistory of the 73+ Bantu Languages and Bantu Language Groups of Zambia 3000 BC to 1600 Ad
In "The prehistory of Zambia's 73+ Bantu Languages of Zambia,"Nicholas Katanekwa, illuminates and provides profound insights of 5000 years of Bantu people's past existence over a landscape that is over half of Africa's total area. The book provides the missing link in the story of Bantu people's phenomenal colonization of such vast territory, in the dating provided, the segmentation of the Bantu language phylum and migration routes elaborated. The book gives a clear identity of the Bantu people of Zambia and indeed Africa and their major achievements over time including a world record for the grand and phenomenal migration of any language phylum in the whole world. Contrary to prevalent pres...
Tracing Our Origins
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The Second Generation
The present work brings to an end the trilogy Xhosa in Town with the Bantu-speaking population of one industrial city in South Africa. This trilogy does not claim to be exhaustive, but the author hopes that its plan - for which he/she has been responsible has given each contributor the opportunity to say something worth while, on topics which are important in the context of contemporary Africa. Besides the peasant cultivators typical of Bantu Africa, there exists today in South Africa a large category of landless Bantu. Long before towns and industries rose to their present importance, many South African Bantu were living and working on white-owned farms, with no homes other than those provi...
