Like most Bantu languages (a major subgroup of the Niger-Congo African language family), Sesotho uses tone to distinguish meaning: • ‘ke bóna batho’ - I see people ...

In. A. Bonnet. Period. Bantu knots have long been a go-to style for Black and mixed raced people for good reasons. If you ...

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are ...

It evolved as a lingua franca, helping Bantu-speaking communities communicate with traders from Arabia and Asia. Swahili gradually became a vital language for trade, diplomacy, and cultural exchange.

He is one of the 100,000 people in the 2024 fiscal year who sought asylum in the U.S. because of their LGBTQ identity and one of the 1 million asylum cases pending determination.

Over the past week, the Trump administration has deployed thousands of troops, including the National Guard and the Marines, ...

The Shona (S10) language cluster encompasses a large group of closely related varieties spanning from the east of Botswana to Zimbabwe and the coast of Mozambique. Based on lexical classifications, ...

The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that continue to challenge researchers. Some languages remain unclassified, while ...

The land debate is clouded by emotion, dishonesty, and racial vaguenessOriginal land owners were the Bushmen, displaced by ...

Click consonants are one of the hallmarks of “Khoisan” languages of southern Africa. They are also found in some Bantu languages, where they are usually assumed to have been copied from Khoisan ...