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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [qb] A few months back on DeviantArt I got trolled by a guy claiming to be a Berber/Somali mix. He told me he had a "justified anger" against "Niger-Congo/Bantu" people because he believed they were guilty of some sort of colossal genocide against other Africans, including "eastern Cushites" like the Somalis. I ended up blocking this nutter, but would be interested in learning the truth in case I bump into him or someone in his social circle elsewhere on the Internet. [/qb][/QUOTE]The guy you speak of is obviously a nutcase as there is NO evidence whatsoever of the Bantu expansion ever involving any genocide of indigenous or prior populations. Even the indigenous populations of the region have no traditions of any genocide perpetrated against them and some don't even have memories of any Bantus expanding in their area which backs up the notion that the Bantu expansion is much exaggerated. [QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [qb] Okay this post caught my interest. Can you elaborte on much much "exaggerated." Anyways are you saying: A) Bantus in Southern and Southeast Africa while clustering with Bantu's from Central-West Africa are a different set of Bantus and don't have origins in West-Central Africa? B) Or do you mean by saying "cultural expansion" that Bantus really did not settle South and Southeast Africa in large numbers and that indigenous populations in that area only received slight Bantu admixture? Forgive me if I am not wording things right. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm saying there was an actual population expansion however, the farther from the epicenter one gets, the less the actual numbers of people. This is why genetic ties to the Benue Congo region fade the further south and east you go. I believe that the Bantu speakers were more successful in spreading their language and culture than they were spreading themselves. Think of for example the spread of Latin language and Roman culture throughout Europe leading to the Romance languages. Although the proto-Bantu peoples never created an empire that expanded through conquest the idea is the same in terms of disseminating language and culture. Even today in Europe the vast majority of Romance speakers have little Roman ancestry. The same can be said of the Prakriti or Sanskrit derived languages of the Indian subcontinent. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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