Bantu - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bantuBantu
A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa These tribes include as important divisions the Kafirs Damaras Bechuanas and many tribes whose names begin with Aba Ama Ba Ma Wa variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba as in Ba ntu or Aba ntu itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable ntu a person or as in Watusi...
Basutos
A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock divided into many tribes at one time subjected by the English They formerly practiced cannibalism but have now adopted many European customs...
Bechuanas
A division of the Bantus dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa They are divided into totemic clans they are intelligent and progressive...
Damara
A native of Damaraland German Southwest Africa The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe and the Hill Damaras who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus...
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