Bantu Expansionism History
The Intracontinental shifting Crusade implicated the Mass exodus of people. This signifies as a critical juncture in African History. The Bantu speaking Frontiers were members of the Niger Congo Linguistics family . They honed technological dexterity particularly as Iron Metallurgists . Their purpose reflected the Transplantation of the Smelting trade . This forged a nascent civilization . The Second Millennium ( 2000 B.C. - 1001 B.C. ) commenced the migratory behavior of the Bantu Frontiers. It spanned the time capsule of two Millennial years that also includes the First Millennium of 1000 B.C. to 1 B.C. Again , the FIRST migration began during the Second Millennium B.C. The Bantu Frontiers peregrinated from the Benue Valley of both Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Cameroon 🇨🇲 to the lacustine Maziwa Makuu , Africa's Great Lakes .
Bantu's First Expansion
A Swahili term for Africa's Great Lakes . It embodies the series of the Rift Valley lakes . The scenery is lacustrine , which encompasses both Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi as the World 2nd largest freshwaters . Collectively , these lacustrine reservoirs comprised of 31,000 km ( 7400 cubic mile ) of water . Each ambit of vastness surpasses North American 5 Great Lakes as known by its acronym ' HOMES ' . This African riverine is an ancient homeland of Biodiversity teeming with aquatic life . The mellifluous lode & waterway conduit in the Great Lakes : Burundi 🇧🇮 , Malawi 🇲🇼, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 , Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩, Kenya 🇰🇪, Rwanda 🇷🇼, Mozambique 🇲🇿, Zambia 🇿🇲, Tanzania 🇹🇿, and Uganda 🇺🇬. These 10 countries are interlacustrine .
Maziwa Makuu
First Millennium is the time capsule spanning from 1000 B.C. to 1 B.C. The Bantu speaking interstices osmotized and transplanted their Linguistics from the Maziwa Makuu terrain to East Africa and Southern Africa. Around the Second Century B.C. ( 200 B.C. - 101 B.C. ) , the Bantu Frontiers furthered their migration into the Upper Zambezi Valley where they settled .
Bantu Second Expansion
First Millennium A.D. ( Anno Domini ) represents the time capsule from 1 A.D. to 1000 A.D. During the First Century ( 1 A.D. - 100 A.D. ) , the Bantu's ramification took on a decisive course on a Westward directionality . The Bantu migrated to the Savannah region of Angola 🇦🇴 du jour. Another sects of Bantu chose the Eastward ramification of travel . They devaricated to these Eastward geozones : Malawi 🇲🇼 du jour , Zambia 🇿🇲 du jour , and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 du jour . Over 2000 years ago around 21 A.D. , the Bantu launched a critical diversion from the Eastward terrain to the Indian Ocean littoral of Kenya 🇰🇪 du jour and Tanzania 🇹🇿 du jour . A coalescent event transpired between the Bantu AND the reunited friends from Malawi , Zambia , and Zimbabwe .
Bantu Third Expansion
The Time capsule is between 101 A.D. -200 A.D. of the Second Century C.E and the First Millennium. The Coalition of the Bantu interstices and their reunited friends ( Malawian , Zambian , & Zimbabwean ) orchestrated and mobilized another Migratory Treks . The Southern ramification of Migration landed them in Maputo , Mozambique 🇲🇿 du jour . Their settlement finalized in Durban.
Bantu Fourth Expansion
Amidst the Bantu Expansion , there was an outgrowth of the monarchical societies subjected to Autocratic rules and leadership. The 4 main interlacustrine and Pre-Colonial smaller States concentrated around the Great Lakes regions such as Buganda , Rwanda , and Burundi. Colonialism began with the European Late 19th century intromission. How ? The European had maintained the African traditional Border under its Colonial power. Their action divided & dismantled the African Monarchies. "...Europe expropriated the Nile..." The mass arrival of missionaries brought about coercive proselytization and conversion of the Africans. unfortunately , the European missionaries opened up the African soliterraneous soil for future European colonization ( a Toxic alloy of settlement and Colonial Rules ) . The African indigenes experienced the decimation of their population as from intense exposure to European pathogenic and deadly diseases . Africans had NO immunity to the arcane vectors . Premature Mortality arose thus affecting the longevity of Humans and livestock in the Age of Neo- Colonialism. African Sovereignty and the African Renaissance blossomed in the happy years of the 1960s . The Africans reclaimed their Maziwa Makuu , their Ecological treasure of civilization .
Maziwa Makuu : Historical Prologue
First Millennium C.E. was the time capsule between 1 A.D. - 1000 A.D. The migratory group of the Bantu interstices furthered its expansion into the Great KEI River of South Africa 🇿🇦, du jour . This regional area was largely the territorial domain of the Khoisan interstices . This marks as the LAST Frontier settlement of the Bantu clan .
Bantu's Final Frontier Settlement
The Western Rift Valley's Freshwater of Maziwa Makuu has a bounty and abundance of Cichlid . This aquamarine species spawn the lacustrine African Great Lakes . Is this about Climatology or Fauna or Flora ?
Maziwa Makuu's Flora & Fauna
The Great Lakes regions is descriptively Zephyr with cool highland by relative comparison . The temperate range is between 17° Celsius ( 63 F ) to 19° Celsius ( 65 F ) . The terrestrial ecozone is teeming and replete with Savannahs and concentric highlands . Obversely , the Lowland is characteristically a dense coppice and sylvan . Forests abound especially in the Congo Basin . There lay extant drainage system at Congo Zaire , Nile , and Zambezi riverine . All drain into the Atlantic Ocean . As for Lake Turkana region , the terrain is , descriptively , arid and sultry with short rainfall in October and long rainy season from April to May . Is this passage a reference to Fauna and Flora or Climatology ?
Maziwa Makuu's Climatology
This adjectival lexicon has polysemous meanings : 1) Of or pertaining to or situated for dwelling on the Bank of a River or other body of water ; and 2) In Law , it is a person owning land on the bank of the Natural watercourse or body water .
Riparian
A Family of the Cichlidae . It is an integral part of the Cichiformes ( a member of the vertebrates family ) . The Convict Blenny is its cognate and the closest family . Both this spawning fish and convict blenny are classified as fishes of the World. The typologies of Cichlidae family encompass Tilapia , Oscars , Discus , and Angel fish . All are freshwater fishes . They are also endemic to Africa's Maziwa Makuu base .
Cichlid
There was an inevitable drawback and hindrance to Bantu settlement in two attempted geographical zones : Namibia 🇳🇦 , and Western Cape . Why ? Both had NO ecological adaptation for the Bantu crop cultivars : Sorghum. The Western Cape had no arable land feasibility . Namibia had brumal ( wintry ) rainfall . These ecological factors served as an hindrance to viable Sorghum cultivation .
Obstructed Bantu Settlement in Namibia and Western Cape
First Millennium A.D. : The Time Capsule is between 1 C.E. and 1000 C.E. The migratory group of the Bantu further its expansion into the Great Kei River of South Africa du jour . This regional area was largely the territorial domain of the Khoisan interstices. This marks as the LAST Frontier settlement of the Bantu clan .
Last Bantu Frontier Settlement
In the wake of the Saharan Desertification , the inevitable population growth spurred . Such ecological factors included the crop cultivation of Wheat and Barley and domestication of livestock ( e.g. goats , 🐐 , sheep , 🐑, & cattle ) . What other variable played a contributive role ?
Competitive Market demand for Agricultural produces
In the wake of the Saharan Desertification , there was an Intracontinental migration of the masses to the Nile Valley . This spurred the outgrowth of the sacral chiefdom in the Nile Delta region of Lower Egypt 🇪🇬. A cluster formed mostly in Upper Egypt along the 2nd & 3rd cataracts of this __?__ of Nile in Ancient Nubia .
Dongola Reach
A peasant farmer or an Agricultural laborer in usually Arab countries ( Egypt 🇪🇬 ) . The Islamic ☪️ alternative appellation and nomenclature is ' fellaheen ' . In singular form , the lexicon is ' fellah ' Etymologically speaking , this word is a derivative of Arabic ' Fallah ' .
Fellahin
A Season in West Africa that occurs between the seasonal months of November and March . It is characterized by a desiccated and parch wind traveling in the northerly direction , "...dusty northeasterly trade wind ..." ; A route of travel wind emanating from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea . The cognate of this term is "...Haramata ..." in the Twi Linguistics with mercurial and volatile temperatures ( hot & cold ) .
Harmattan
An African throwing spear
Javelin
A West African talisman , amulet , and enchanting spell so used in ceremonial ritual and practice ; worn as an hair adornment or corporeal accessory.
Juju
Several ecological factors aerved as a hindrance to the Bantu's viable Sorghum domestication and cultivation . Namibia and the Western Cape offered no ecological adaptation for the Bantu crop cultivars : Sorghum. What was the main drawback for NO Bantu expansion & settlement in the Western Cape and Namibia ?
No Arable land in both regions & Namibian Winter rainfall
An earliest ancestor
Primogenitor
The cultural fluorescence of this particular society began to take shape and dimension around 1000 B.C. Its culture materialized along the Jos Plateau while the Bantu launched their Intracontinental migration and terrestrial exploration . The Terra Cotta artifice were sculptural representation of both humans and elephants . Around 500 B.C. ,, such technological implements as the created furnace facilitated the expansive and accumulative surfeit of unique argillaceous pottery. These crafts were made from Kaolin ( ochre clay ) . The Nokite tribes alongside their culture mysteriously floundered . 200 A D. marked as the period of their dissolution & evanescence. The successive cultures of the Yoruba of Ife & the Binikins of Benin maintained the cultural preservation of the Bronze smelting figurines .
Nok Culture
This adjectival word means , ' of cavern and cave walls . Of something done on or lives on Rock , cliff , and/or cave wall . Its etymological origin links tobLatin lexicon , ' rupes ' ( rock , cliff ) and " rupestris " ( meaning found on rock ) . The Pre Historic Tassil painting highlighted and illustrated the quintessential quality of rock 🪨 painting featuring Dabous Giraffe 🦒. It was _?_ in Its expressive nature as located in the Western Air Mountain of Niger 🇳🇪.
Rupestrian