Aram the son of Shem and Ishmael the son of Abram are our four fathers.Arabic was created from a Bantu language. The original Arabs were black people and their Totem was u Dube ( Zebra) found as u Dhliwayo tribe. Few common Arabic words with Bantu roots are as follows: People in Arabic are called Banu in bantu language is Bantu. Lets go in Arabic is Asahab in bantu language is Asihambe, To replace in Arabic is Badala in bantu language is also Badala, delivering a speech in Arabic is Kalam, in bantu language is Khuluma, Talk to me in Arabic is Kalim ni and in the Bantu is Khuluma nami, being left behind in Arabic is Salla in bantu is Sala.
Great presentation even though your sources are European influenced. The Khoi and San are not extinct, they did not only infleunce our culture as Xhosa’s but also intermarried with the Bantu. They assimilated into the Bantu they are our Ancestors also. We Bantu especially Nguni’s do not worship our Ancestors that is a gross misunderstanding if our Spirituality not religion, we are not religious. We venerate our Ancestors and seek guidance from them. Our origins also go much further than the Niger-Congo basin but it was right for Europeans to place us in the Congo and not Kemet for obvious reasons.
Don't worry too much about it. The truth is our ancestors came here from the stars and the whole planet was inhabited by them. Yes they initially came to Congo because of the large deposits of Cobalt, Coltan, and Gold. Minerals imperative in the creation and development of any type of electronics.
😂😂 they placed us at Congo basin for obvious reasons, far away from Kemet. I'm Zulu we came from East Africa not West. Swazi people came from North-East Africa.
It's so surprising that Europeans and Arabs are the people deciding and Naming this continent? Or we have to believe what they tell us about our history and ancestors past present and Future
True that, it really is unfortunate. Everywhere the colonizer writes his own version of events, distorted or not, they would never care as long as it supports their narrative.
Hi Brenda, hope you are well, remember that Europeans are the one's who claim to discover things that are already there. Unfortunately they have named many men to come up with items already in existence. With the usage of 'coin' we wanted to reiterate that in their world/discipline of linguistics, he is the one who brought that term or abantu to them. Like it or not, us as abantu not documenting our history has allowed invaders to claim what is ours as theirs. This is a mere representation of his story and truly remember that we are dissecting their liars, so when we bring them to light, we are not glorifying them but rather letting everyone see all angles of this lie.
It wasn't invented. We literray say bantu for people and abantu for the people. It is how we write it. Muntu=person, omuntu=a person. How could the european understand our writing system? He just used it bc we were already using it.
He did not invent the word. Rather, after realising that it appeared in so many languages in southern and eastern Africa, he came to the conclusion that these languages were related and descended from a single language, and he decided to call this family of languages "Bantu."
Those peoples we have all of them in Rwandan history more than 6000years brothers they original is in big country was Rwanda not as small as we see today
Thank you for your work i did hit the like button. I am just concerned about the accuracy of some your information you stated that Bantu people ancestor worship ! Wouldnt it be more accurate to say venerate ?
Just because velem coin the word bantu doesn't mean it didn't exist among our people NTU... Umntu ...Swahili mtu Abantu......watu Isintu Izintu Ubuntu The only thing we don't agree is the classification the word mean human thet why we don't have the word for the continent all people black people are Bantu the nailotic subsahara all those is European
I understand scholars talked about bantu migration from the regions of Cameroon to Southern Africa, but I have doubts about that. 1. The tribes in Nigeria and from Cameroon where I came from all say their ancestors came from somewhere else. Other tribes are splinter from amongst a larger group founding villages. 2. I don't know of any, but if anybody knows, please do enlighten me of any of our ancestors' bones older than those in Southern Africa dug up from these regions around Cameroon? Sometimes, foreign researches form their own opinions to fit their narratives and not listen to the natives. They dismiss oral history as not reliable without taking a second look as to what the natives are saying.
It is the language which spread out from the Cameroon/Nigeria border region, but Bantu-speaking people came from all over. Bantu-languages in southern Africa, for instance, contain many Khoi and San words. They also contain Cushitic/Nilotic words, particularly relating to animal husbandry and pastoralism, which supports the theory that the Bantu speakers were Iron Age farmers, but only became cattle, goat and sheep herders when they migrated east and encountered the pastoralists peoples, on whom they impressed their Bantu languages. My DNA population test links me in the male line to East Africa, with a tiny connection to the Yoruba, Mende and other West African people. Possible male ancestors include Pharaoh Ramsese III, and a man who lived in Ethiopia around 3450 BC. Given that e1b1a2b2 (v2403) is one of the most widespread haplogroups in southern Africa, I'd say our physical origins are predominantly in East Africa, but the languages we speak are from that Mambila region in Nigeria/Cameroon. It is in the Great Lakes region that we began to form ethnic groups and a culture that we would recognise as related to us.
❤ So proud to belong to the great bantu civilization. It feels good to know that my homeland is almost the cradle of Bantu ethos. I nonetheless want to know where Bantu migrated from prior to settling in that Nigeria-Cameroon area. Was it Ethiopia , Sudan, Egypt or modern Israël ? Thank you bro for this content. Stay blessed !
I appreciate the things Bantus have succeeded and proceeded with like different iron furnaces, chimneys, fire places, weaponry, utensils, kits, ovens, and pots among other kinds of makings especially for help and defense.
@@africaninsights as abantu Ntu people who fought against one another and where did we come from behind west Africa and Mizraim we go back to scripture
@@chipo777Iwe Chips I don't believe we came from West Africa region. How then do we look so different in appearance. Even our languages sound nothing like each other. Have you heard Nigerians speaking, it's like they are fighting. How is that similar to Ndebele or Shona? It's bullshit. I don't believe it
Bantu - Children/Offspring of the Supreme Goddesses Queen Ntu. "Ba" denotes belonging to. The Zulu people are the people of/from heaven/the sky. Bantu have been on this planet for millions of years and are on many other planets as well. All human beings are derived from Bantu through mutation. Bantu are the Annunaki. The Zulu word "Ningizimu" is derived from Ningishzida. The Watcher in the book of Enoch called Samjaza is Somagwaza, an ancestor of the Xhosa. Anything else they teach you about us is bs
Gedeni. Then where do these terms come from. Abantu, batu, muntu, mutu , watu. Those words are found in African indigenous languages. Just because a white man claimed the term it does not mean we don't existe.
There is no way im descended from people who came from west and central Africa. I think we have always been in Zimbabwe and people moved around Southern Africa but i dont buy it that we came from Gabon or West Africa 😢
I think there is a false perception and distortion that during the so called Bantu migrations that the Nilotes were not mixed in and part of Bantu. Bantu is not really a separate group but is all Afrikans, since we all originated from one general region. Most of the information we have comes from sources that have no clue where Afrikan separations occured. For example they say Kushites are another sub group, when in actual fact, the real Kushites were the Bantus and Nilotes, who were the same people. The Kushites of today are Greek, Roman and Arab mulatto invaders.
He knew a lot for his time & was definitely a trailblazer but didn’t know all because there is is too much to know, too much still not yet rediscovered, still a lot which is subject to speculation & perhaps always will be lists in the shrouds of history- Diop paved a way but definitely expected people decades after him to broaden this way instead on lazily resting on his efforts
@@masehoart7569 Agreed. A lot more information has come out since Diop's time. As important as his work was, we need to keep digging into our history and updating our knowledge.
@ faithfultoyeshua4576 I am scared that people sometimes add their feelings nothing that can be proven. In the absence of proper history it it hard to distinguish between lies and the truth.
2:35 the whole of South Africa, botswana and namibia should also be coloured because every area of these countries you find black people speaking Bantu languages
Coloured people are not indigenous in Africa but partly Africans. They are a mixed-race people from their European fathers and and African mothers who were forced into relationship with the colonizers and masters of enslaved indigenous Africans. We can also add the fact that a good number of Coloured people have about 5% of African blood and can never claim t0o be Africans.
Yeah. when i say coloured i mean the map that was shown they shaded many countries besides for namibia part of SA and botswana. And bantu languages are spoken everywhere in SA , botswana and namibia
@@olbosin Who said that 'Khoisan' is not Bantu? I have been to the Kgalagadi in Botswana and can say with certainty that the difference is mostly clicks in our languages.
Something to look into, It is said that Africa is a word of Hebrew origin describing a Hebraic people who were descendants of Abraham. Africa literally means land of Epher grandson of Abraham the Hebrew. This according to Titus Flavius Josephus (37AD-c.100AD) born Yosef ben Matityahu and other ancient historians, a first-century Romano Jewish historian asserted that it was named for Epher, whose descendants, he claimed had invaded Northwest Africa. Afar/Afer=Epher Just a note, when narrating it is good project your voice to sound interested and to be heard clearly.
I recon the Great Lakes origins make more sense. Gisu (Lumsaba) still retains a pre-prefix reduced to an initial vowel in other interlacustrine languages and the Nguni group of Southern Africa. Most Bantu language shave only the class prefix.
I littery just read the allotments of shem ham and japheth in the book of jubilees chapter 8 and 9, a portion of land shem had was called afar! You just confirmed what the scriptures been saying
@@stephentaylor2119No it is not named after the Berber people. Africa is of Latin origin look it up you condescending fool. The continent had several names by the indigenous populations due to their diverse languages. Alkebulan being one of them. The Dogon had a name for the continent as did the ancient Nubians. Typical racist colonizer mentality trying to "educate" African people about their own history. Also in another comment you said we had no "grammar." The first written languages were African! Guess where the oldest libraries were found??? Gtfoh
FYI Bantu descend from Jacob in the bible so Bantu are the "people" called by his name NTU. Everyone in the world doesn't descend from Jacob. You have Black Hamites and Black Shemites. Shem had 8 sons all of them are Shemitic. The Bantu come directly from Abraham Isaac and Jacob. We have a covenant with the most high. We have DNA that is different from the rest of the world.
Arab did bring language in Tanzania but they came and took Bantu language. Those Arab who kicked out on 1963 during Zanzibar revolution. They went oman. Thus why you see or hear some people speak Swahili there. But you can not hear Arab from saudia arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco whose speak Arabic language can understand someone speak Swahili. Ask our sisters who went to work as house maid will tell . Swahili was not come from Arabic. Swahili is the corruption of the word "ziwa hili". Ziwa means body of water and hili means here. When few Arab come they asked where are you came from. The reply we are from ziwa hili. Those Arab and white corrupted it and came up the word Swahili. Is the same to mount Kilimanjaro. The real name is kilima kyaro.
How beautiful, thanks for sharing this. In xhosa, my native tongue, ''ububi'' is for evil. Umntu ombi - an ugly person. Amanzi mabi, bad water. Just thought of sharing our xhosa usage too.
@@africaninsights Ububi is uglyness and mubi can mean ugly too. Our "b" is almost silent though, something between v and b. We also say "Inyama mbi": Bad meat! Interestingly the word "nyama" goes beyond bantu languages. It be found all the way up in West Africa.
So similar to my Kisii language from Kenya. We say "ekebe" for evil, "Omonto omobe" for a bad person, "Amache amabe" for bad water. Not sure when the spelling and pronunciation changed but that could be attributed to the migration. At one point, I believe us Bantu people spoke the same language. We just have different variations of it today.
@@TheLilly Some experts have rejected that scenario. They believe the bantu languages travelled through diffusion rather than population migration. However in countries like Malawi there's genetic evidence that entire communities were replaced. It's complex. It's also interesting to note that most pygmy tribes speak bantu languages. Isn't that odd? Couldn't it be that bantu tongues are a millenia old mixing of words and idioms from ancient forest dwelling populations (pygmies) and folks from West Nigeria and Cameroon? Then some decided to move down!?
Love how you stressed Bantu is a linguistic category & not a racial one as especially Americans racialise it all the time or it is considered as a monolithic culture despite the obvious diversity … but where the credits to the Easy Languages channel from which you took the first excerpts sequences of Khoekhoegowab & no credits to baba Credo Mutwa?
So true in your statement. Lesson learnt. I’m only just starting RU-vid in all honesty but have seriously learnt from your comment. I will strive to give credit where it’s due. Much appreciated
Go get your fact straight my brother singabantu...but hey you have a right to count your self out..and for your information we dnt worship ancestors we honor them/sibanika intlonipo nodumo imbeko if you know what i mean...thanks for the great platform by the way.
Ingxaki iphi ndoda, zinyani zabo ezi as the colonizer, so in essence, we dissect them, so they will come as they are but the intention is to focus on each topic through an episode upload. Iyeza eyeAnimism nezinyanya. Thanks for taking the time to watch. Appreciated
why do you even take these european sources without questioning them in the first place; and use black & afrikan scholars who worked on this?! this is not useful at all! one can consider this-
Remember that we are dissecting what is fed to the minds since the 1800s, like it or not, in record, it is the oppressor who has written the history, and remember exactly that, they have written it, meaning it comes in many forms, factual and non factual. We gladly dissecting any source of information, this post or channel does not look at only one perspective, we aim to assess information at all angles, no matter who it comes from, what we aim is to get to the truth. We believe one of the very reasons we have this channel is to actually question what history presents as one sided source of information. This is our style of presenting information and if you observe other videos, you will note the theme in which we are growing towards. It is unfortunate that this clip has not fully resonated with you, we respect your opinion and thank you for commenting, in order for us to grow we need all kinds of feedback. Keep tuned, there are many topics that involve many African scholars to come, we hoping you would enjoy them once we deliver the angle you want.
Kindly also remember that it was a European scholar who first coined in linguistics the usage of Bantu. So in actually essence we are looking at the root of the record. Take high note of record as well, because as much as this scholar coined it, we as abantu, kudala sizazi.
Do kindly wait for the next video about Nguni. The topic here was dismantling the two main theories about the migration of abantu, we did not elaborate on Nguni. Nguni people have always been in Southern Africa. If you really listened to the video, you would know the cradle of humankind is in South Africa, homo Naledi, which took scientists by surprise in 2013. All I ask is that you kindly go through this video content, we are ridding away of the colonisers versions. Common sense would then elude that migration is from Southern Africa, I mean even the first mines ever in the world are known to be in Southern Africa, Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland. Inzalo yeLanga ‘Birthplace of the Sun’, is the oldest known solar/stone calendar/man made structure in Mpumalanga, South Africa (Colonizers named this Stonehenge ‘Adams Calendar’, to Christianity, who is Adam again?) We have all been programmed to digest lies that feed only the colonisers dominance, I plead with you to be open minded and assess the facts accurately. All the best
Ive been disputing this gibberish a lot . Thanks finally someone has combined a well detailed explanation. Theres nothing that says Cameroon about the people of Southern Africa . Again id only agree if they talked about the East is venerated a lot in Southern African Cultures both Sotho and Nguni cultures no mention of the north our ancestors were not stupid. Willem Bleek was grazy he named the people Bantu for a mere fact that he came to Southern Africa I wonder if hed went to Congo or East Africa what was he going to call
How much do you know about Cameroon to be that certain? In just my little research as a Cameroonian interested in African history, I found Cameroonian names like Mokete, Maloba, Masango, Mbala, are also South African names, for example and I found many more sound similar. Some Bantu tribes in Cameroon wear skins just like in South Africa. The languages of many of the Cameroonian Bantu tribes have many similar words and almost all refer to people/person as Moto/Bato and some narrate in their oral histories that they came from the south of Egypt and Sudan. Even if the migration theory is not accurate, there's definitely some similarities. We all have a lot to learn.
content is fine by please, for the love of God, work on your narration. You sound sleepy & it was hard to follow what you are saying without dozing off.
first things first...the word homo sapien is not an african word so you should not use it when talking of african history......second the muntu as the origin of the first man should and can only be traced back to east and central africa ...thirdly....we are sick and tired of almost every nation coming up and saying that they are the origin of the first man ....the same way all african countries now claim to be jews....i prompt you to do more extensive research with elders in your village and in your clan and in your totem..........i see that most of your maps come from the internet...i encourage you to read the old testament as it will show you actually where and who we come from
Hi Boogz, thanks for your insight, we always appreciate all views. Boogz, we are dissecting history, his story as clearly marked in our profile. Why should we be restricted in usage of words like homo sapien? In history books, our children are brainwashed with such words and findings. Boogz for quite a while umntu wokuqala was recorded to be east africa, i agree, however bones older than east africa were found in south africa, kindly research that as well. Boogz, my commenting here, is not to dispute what you are saying, boogz, we are black, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, this channel and this upload by no means is it trying to represent a nation and a claim of the origin of man. Boogz, in actual essence, we want to know the truth, generalizations in your comment are quite unfair. I can clearly see the passion in your comment however, it is a restricted view. Remember that a circle is 360 degrees. my comment takes up 1 degree and i always say that i can never dispute the other 359 views hence why we appreciate you taking the time to let us know your thoughts. Keep well Boogz.
@@africaninsights i mean well……i really do However the Bantu are the true Jews/ israelites …Moses couldnt take the israelites out of egypt and cross into the land we now know call Israel. Scriptures have been changed to alter where moses led the people up …. If you go up from Egypt you come into the bantu land as the river nile flows to Egypt so up would be the bantu land How can the pharoh look for white slaves to cross into egypt ….yet he can get the people from east africa by way of the nile and enslave them…..
Wow, I was reluctant to watch this video, thinking it is the usual nonsense that people still believe. I agree 100 percent, there never was a "Bantu People" or "Bantu Migration". Nguni people are actually Khwe (the so-called Khoi) from the great lakes, mixed with Mbo (abaMbo) from Sudan and remixed with Khwe and Lawu (San/bushman) in South Africa. Khoi is a corruption of Khwe, which was spelled Khoe by the German to which the British pronounced as "Khoi". SAN which is usually mixed with Khoi, to form "Khoisan" is an abbreviation for South African Natives. All this corruption was intended to distort the true history of European occupation of South Africa. The genocide, the displacement and the slavery. It therefor supprises me when Africans outside of South Africa adopt these false labels, "Bantu" and "khoisan".
@@janviljoen9554 you are intellectually handicapped to respond with this bull to what I said. There never was a "Khoi" I should know better than any European or Coloured, because I still practice the culture of the first people in "South Africa", and their language lives on in mine.
Batho is the real plural noun for people , Bantu is derived from Zulu Abantu since it was easier for whites to pronounce which is a spin off language like in Kalanga is Banthu , in Shona is vhanu & so forth ! If you you move further away from Setswana speaking people the more it becomes something else though you find Setswana words in all of southern African languages including Swahili in central Africa meaning the same things as in Setswana . Tswa in Setswana means to leave or come out of , so when there was a break off after disagreements and a group leaves the main group others would ask where are they going ? Batswa mo go rona, meaning they are leaving us ! Batswana ! Direct translation to English is people that come from one another ! Each they left the main group the language was changed and they called themselves a different name overtime we now have a million languages worldwide ! Salang sente ditsala ! Not Salam malekum 😅😅😅
There's an upcoming episode, whereby our research is driven by the context in Credo Mutwas book, indaba my children, whereby he writes of old 'tribes' who identify themselves with the prefix 'Ba'. Ba-Tswana. There is so much rich history to be uncovered here. Thank you for your wonderful and insightful comment. However, just a heads up, we will put forward that the Ba-Ntu or the Ba-Tu were the founders of our culture and religion. Thus we will indicate that Ba-Tswana are direct offshoots of the great Ba-Ntu nation, we will definitely tag you when the episode is aired, we would greatly appreciate your comment on the research gathered.
Your voice make people sleepy, you don't even know what you talking about that's not Bantu history you don't stick to the topic you said lot of different stories
Hahaha... Thank goodness creation has an array of voices. Find the one that does not make you sleepy, i'm sure you will find great joy in it. This are my vocals and i am sticking to them. Remember the content is on Linguistics, you mention 'Bantu History' but we are only dissecting Language.
One of the biggest reasons we strive to build the content of this channel is to move further away from False narratives but rather have gains on truth. The platform is now yours, we are all ears, do kindly enlighten us on 'True'
Well you never had a name for your continent or your people. Rename everything. Each country manes other countries in accordance to many factors, We call Deutchland Germany, The French call Germany Allemagne. It was Europeans who noticed the relationship of African languages to each other and coined the term Bantu. You had no concept of it or grammar. Had you provided us with a generic name for this language family, we would have used it. We called the various tribes by the name they themselves used.
Well well, hold your horses there, let me give you just one homework for the day, just one tribe to base your knowledge on, the Dogon Tribe, they had a name for the motherland (there's an upcoming video on this) enlighten yourself in the meantime, explore their knowledge of the constellations as well, of how 18th century european scientist are shocked of their knowledge and as europeans do best, claimed to discover certain stars in the 18th century when this knowledge was already passed on orally by the dogons
Point of correction,we're not bantu people,when you say bantu people you simply mean,"people people"it doesn't make sense. If you're an African you know that bantu means people White people just named us anyhow without knowing the meaning of the word. Chinese are bantu,europeans are bantu etc.We are the jews,white people just chose a word that's common in our languages just to kill our jewish identity.There's no people in Africa or the world called bantu NO!.We're the chosen people,the actual Israelites is us.We need to wake up!
I think there is a false perception and distortion that during the so called Bantu migrations that the Nilotes were not mixed in and part of Bantu. Bantu is not really a separate group but is all Afrikans, since we all originated from one general region. Most of the information we have comes from sources that have no clue where Afrikan separations occured. For example they say Kushites are another sub group, when in actual fact, the real Kushites were the Bantus and Nilotes, who were the same people. The Kushites of today are Greek, Roman and Arab mulatto invaders.
Bantus don't look like cushites or nilotics. We have different cultures and different language structure. Ever continent and race has its own sub groups. Like how the whites have salves , Celtic, Germanic people.
@@estajeanette7487 Kushites of today are not black. You say Bantus don't look like Nilotes because you know nothing about Bantus, my Bantu Ankole Hima,family are dark skinned and tall. Don't comment on what you know nothing about you are not even Bantu
@@eastafrika728 nilotics are tall and dark like south sudanese in most cases. We don't look like you. Have you ever seen a bantu women who is 5'11 and is pitch black? Anyone looking at a nilotic, bantu, cushite knows they don't look alike.
Nilotes are Hamites Bantu are Shemites totally different DNA. The person that made this video is unaware are deliberately trying to put out false information. Nobody wants the world to know we are the biblical Israelites. So a lot of youtubers and content creators are putting out false information. The Bantu came from the North not West.
@@eastafrika728 They are Hamites, Bantu are Shemites two different DNA and skulls. They don't look alike. Just because your family does, doesn't speak for all Bantu. Most of Black America are Bantu they look nothing like Kushites or Ethiopian or Nilotes or Hamites in general. They are gorgeous people but we don't lookalike. Hamites look like models tall with smooth skin exotic looking. To me they are the most beautiful people on earth are the Hamites Kushites Ethiopians etc.
