Facts about the Bantu people.

From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) | Date: August 10, 2004 | Copyright information

Bantu facts:

Arab slave traders seized Bantus from their homes in the 19th century in Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique. After their emancipation in the early 1900s, Bantus continued to be treated as second-class citizens and were discouraged from sending their children to school, owning land or political representation.

When Somalia disintegrated into a war among rival clans in the early 1990s, the Bantu people became a target for attacks, rapes and killings. They joined the exodus of tens of thousands to neighboring Kenya.

Numbers: The Somali population is estimated ...

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