Bantu peoples

The outskirts.

English is widely spoken in Nairobi, which is good for you, though outside of the city, if you have to go out at all, and a few other towns, most black Africans speak little or no English, something you may want to keep in mind should you need to communicate with them, but luckily Hugo knows a little Bantu.

And if you speak Swahili, you can get by even when speaking with tribes who speak other dialects.

Which

is great.

Well, Bantu, Swahili is a

subsect, yeah.

So, I imagine you're going to want to sleep in.

Where are they? Tell me a little bit about their story.

Yeah, the Kisi people are one of the 40 tribes in Kenya, and they are a Bantu-descended people, and they live in southwest Kenya.

They are a subsistence agriculture practice, more living in one place now, and they're specifically known for living in an area and growing the very small sweet bananas.

My mother-in-law loves her bananas, and the sweet bananas are specifically what the area is known for and connected to the people as well.

In Africa, we have more than 2,000 languages.

Ubuntu is a philosophy, a way of life of the Bantu people.

The Bantu people represent, out of the 2,000 languages in Africa, we have between 400 and 600 Bantu or Bantu languages.

In history, when we study the migration of the Bantu, you can see them like in different parts of Africa, in the southern parts, central, eastern, western, even like in the northern part of Africa.

So that it's a sense of community and collectivism.

The popular phrase of Ubuntu is that I am because we are.

And then as I'm going to end my answer talking about that point is that Cheikh Anta Diop from Senegal, he spoke about the cultural and the linguistic unity of Africa.

And in his books, he talks about how the ancient Egyptian civilization, a human being was called Nti, N-T-I.

A bone tool with a lump of quartz attached to it that is believed to have been created roughly 20,000 years ago, possibly as some kind of rudimentary mathematical tool.

Early hunter-gatherers in the area were eventually either replaced or absorbed into the Bantu tribes that began migrating southwards probably around the first millennium BC, and these Bantu kingdoms gradually evolved over the coming centuries.

things began to go just a bit apocalyptical when the belgium king leopold ii decided he wanted his own private slave plantation but in truth things had never been easy in this region the eastern area of what is today the drc saw frequent raids by the arab swahili slave traders who were bringing boats ashore on mainland africa to collect people without their consent long before europeans began doing the same but things quickly careened off a high cliff once king leopold envious of other european nations and their african colonies decided he wanted a slice of the pie for himself now this is important because while other nations had certainly marched into african regions and announced that those living there were now under the white rule of the king or queen living thousands of miles away it was always done so under the banner of a nation itself king leopold however have very different ideas in fact it's absolutely insane to think that in 1885 king leopold was able to claim such a massive piece of land not for belgium but for himself even more ludicrous considering what was to come he was able to convince other leaders at the berlin conference which began in 1884 to carve up the continent that he was a humanitarian and esteemed philanthropist and dear viewer i would like you to keep that particular sentence in mind when i begin to explain about what happened in the congo free state it began with a lot of bluster about suppressing the slave trade and the usual pompous crap about civilizing the natives and while thousands of slaves were liberated and the congolese were granted rights over their own lands it didn't take very long for that to go crashing down you see running a country is rather expensive and king leopold quickly ran up huge debts that even threatened his stake in the congo in response he set in motion a series of decrees that would push many to the brink and cause millions of deaths first came new land laws which essentially meant any piece of land without a dwelling or cultivation was automatically claimed by the state and this was followed by rules which forced the congolese to only sell their goods to the state which of course could set the prices at whatever they wanted them to be in 1992 leopold carved up the country and handed out huge parcels of land to private companies to create vast rubber plantations They were also given the freedom to police their land how they wished, which included detaining Africans who didn't work hard enough.

In return, the companies paid a hefty annual dividend which, you guessed it, found its way into Leopold's bulging wallet.

And it was this white woman with these little buns all over her hair.

And I'm like, you mean Bantu knots, which is a traditional African hairstyle.

They just they just did something.

I feel like in Elle or Vogue where they had Tracy Ellis Ross and they're like the cloud bob.