HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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only a very few
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close to 70 million
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several hundred thousand
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close to 40 million
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today, close to 70 million people across the southern half of Africa speak Bantu-based languages and share some part of Bantu culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -During a wave of expansion that began 4, 000 to 5, 000 years ago, Bantu-speaking populations – today some 310 million people – gradually left their original homeland of West-Central Africa and traveled to the eastern and southern regions of the continent.
Detailed explanation-3: -They raised livestock-particularly cattle-and practiced agriculture, growing grain crops such as sorghum. Bantu women eventually married Sudanic and Cushitic men and raised their children to speak the Bantu language. Between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 800, the Bantu language spread throughout the Great Lakes region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ndebele and Shona, Zimbabwe (14 million people) Luba, Democratic Republic of the Congo (13 million people) Zulu, South Africa (10 million people) Sukuma, Tanzania (8 million people. Kikuyu, Kenya (6 million people) More items