"Chief among the reasons for migration is environmental stress and population increase in West Africa, forcing people ... the Bantu family from Gikuyu in the north to Setswana in the south.

Bantu is the word widely used as a description of a body of people ... south, although we do not know this for sure. Listen to a dramatisation of geographer Strabo describing Meroe In West Africa ...

In it she slicks her coily hair into Bantu knots ... According to South Africa's latest census coloured people make up 8.2% of the population. Tessa Dooms Tessa Dooms (L) and Lynsey Ebony Chutel ...