Re:Native-Land.ca – Our home on native land
by thaumasiotes on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:06PM
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> Most of the natives were killed but some were enslaved and kept as food
It should be noted that the pygmies are generally in a symbiotic relationship with the Bantu today - competition between the groups is limited by the fact that the pygmies inhabit non-arable land.
This would have been different when the Bantus arrived, of course.
No, the Bantu expansion was mass genocide on a continental scale. The bulk of africa was previously populated by brown skinned people and pygmies, not by Bantus, who originated in the west Niger delta. From that delta, they exploded, exterminating the rest of south saharan Africa. Most of the natives were killed but some were enslaved and kept as food - an entire continent genocided, with many tribes eaten to extinction.
You can see evidence of this with DNA studies and by the fact that virtually all the brownskinned people or pygmies are gone. Sub-saharan africa is now a black skinned continent inhabited primarily by Bantus, when it was previously a heterogeneous continent with black and brown skinned people as well as pygmies.
It may have taken more time than the European conquest of America, but it was much more bloody.