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The Bantu Migration was a massive migration of people across Africa about 2 000 years ago, and was the most important human migration to have occurred since the first human ancestors left Africa more than a m i l l i o n years ago. Lasting for 1 500 years, the Bantu Migration involved the movement of people whose language belonged to the Kongo-Niger language group. The common Kongo-Niger word for human being is bantu.

- National Geographic