The three-millennia dispersal of Bantu-speaking farmers from the Cameroon grasslands across the Congo basin to the Great Lakes, the Zambezi and the south — the demographic event that shaped half of Africa.
By the middle of the first millennium CE the dispersal had seeded the iron-working, farming societies from which the Luba, Zimbabwe-plateau, Swahili-coast and southern-African states later rose.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Bantu Expansion — the shape you scrub through changes in 3000 BC · 1500 BC · 800 BC · 0 · 301.
The standard history of the western equatorial forest societies that the western Bantu stream produced, tracing political traditions from initial settlement to the era of the Kongo/Loango kingdoms.