Bantu may refer to:
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages
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Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
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Bantu knots
Afro-textured hair, or kinky hair, is a human hair texture originating from sub-Saharan Africa. Each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny, angle-like helix shape. The overall effect is such that, contrasted with straight, wavy, or curly ha ...
, a type of African hairstyle
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Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity, a youth activism group in the 1960s
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Bantu (band), a band based in Lagos, Nigeria
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''Bantu'' (album), a 2005 album by Bantu
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Bantu FC
Bantu Football Club is a Lesotho football club based in Mafeteng.
The team currently plays in Lesotho Premier League.
History
Bantu F.C. was formed in 1927 as Flying Sweeps of Mafeteng and later renamed Bantu F.C. The founders were the then dist ...
, an association football club in Mafeteng, Lesotho
See also
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Bantu expansion
The Bantu expansion is a hypothesis about the history of the major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa. In the process, t ...
, a series of migrations of Bantu speakers
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Bantustan, designated land set aside for black Africans in South Africa during apartheid
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