Studying Bantu migrations across sub-Saharan Africa?
Here's a great 10-minute clip from Jared Diamond's documentary, Guns, Germs, and Steel.
This might be a great complement to Eric Beckman's terrrific lesson about the Swahili language which is a Bantu language.
Diamond notes that words in a number of African languages sound remarkably similar because of a common root. They all come from the Bantu, which originated in West Africa and spread throughout tropical Africa about 5000 years ago.
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