Bantu People
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Bantu languages: There are over 140 different Bantu languages. ReligionBantu is used as a general label for 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages, distributed from Cameroon east across Central Africa and Eastern Africa to Southern Africa. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages. The Bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups, none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million). The Bantu language Swahili with its 5-10 million native speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions fluently command it as a second language. A Kongo woman in DRC A Kikuyu woman in KenyaFrom Wikipedia under the
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Society: Religion and Spirituality: African ... The religions and divination systems that developed among the Kongo and Bantu people of Congo / Angola Central Africa focus on worship of the Nkisi (also called ... Society: Religion and Spirituality: African ... Vodun's diaspora roots go back to the West African people who brought their religion ... In the Western Hemisphere, Vodou has also been influenced by the Kongo and Bantu ... Society: Religion and Spirituality: African ... Includes in-depth articles on the worship of the Nkisi (Enkises), bibliography, guestbook, and useful link-list to other Palo, Kongo, and Bantu sites.
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