<P> Around 3,000 years ago , speakers of the Proto - Bantu language group began a millennia - long series of migrations eastward from their homeland between West Africa and Central Africa , at the border of eastern Nigeria and Cameroon . This Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to central , southern and southeastern Africa , regions they had previously been absent from . The proto - Bantu migrants in the process assimilated and / or displaced a number of earlier inhabitants that they came across , such as Pygmy and Khoisan populations in the centre and south , respectively . They also encountered some Afro - Asiatic outlier groups in the southeast who had been there for centuries , having migrated from Northeast Africa . </P>
<P> Around 3,000 years ago , speakers of the Proto - Bantu language group began a millennia - long series of migrations eastward from their homeland between West Africa and Central Africa , at the border of eastern Nigeria and Cameroon . This Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to central , southern and southeastern Africa , regions they had previously been absent from . The proto - Bantu migrants in the process assimilated and / or displaced a number of earlier inhabitants that they came across , such as Pygmy and Khoisan populations in the centre and south , respectively . They also encountered some Afro - Asiatic outlier groups in the southeast who had been there for centuries , having migrated from Northeast Africa . </P>
what was the original homeland of bantu-speaking farmers
what was the original homeland of bantu-speaking farmers
between West Africa and Central Africa , at the border of eastern Nigeria and Cameroon
between West Africa and Central Africa , at the border of eastern Nigeria and Cameroon