Bantu Migrations

Studying Bantu migrations across sub-Saharan Africa? 

Here's a great 10-minute clip from Jared Diamond's documentary, Guns, Germs, and Steel.

This might be a great complement to Eric Beckman's terrrific lesson about the Swahili language which is a Bantu language.

Diamond notes that words in a number of African languages sound remarkably similar because of a common root.  They all come from the Bantu, which originated in West Africa and spread throughout tropical Africa about 5000 years ago.

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