The Many Ways of Being Human

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The Bantu Expansion

A map of Africa with no borders shows a patchwork in the north and, south of a line near the Bight of Biafra, almost a single color across fifteen million square kilometers. One language family, whose word for person is mtu in Dar es Salaam and umuntu in Durban, spread without empire or army, as a front moving a kilometer or two a year.