Their results reveal how Bantu-speaking peoples - which today account for one-third of sub-Saharan Africans - developed gene variations that helped them cope with malaria and lactose.

One of the biggest of these is known as the Bantu expansion. There are over a billion people in Africa, and nearly a quarter of them speak languages from the Bantu family. Bantu speakers occupy ...

Researchers have used genetic analysis to model the much-debated migration paths, and mingling patterns, of Bantu-speaking people as they disseminated across Africa. Their results reveal how Bantu ...

The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally ...

is among four outstanding research leaders awarded a major European Research Council grant which he will use to map more precisely the expansion of Bantu-language speakers in Southern Africa.

South Eastern Bantu-speakers have a clear linguistic division - they speak more than nine distinct languages - and their geography is clear: some of the groups are found more frequently in the ...

As Bantu-speaking people migrated across Africa, they acquired advantageous genetic mutations through admixture. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 5, 2017, issue of Science ...