There is disagreement about the routes taken by populations speaking Bantu languages as they expanded to cover much of sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we build phylogenetic trees of Bantu languages and map them onto geographical space in order to assess the likely pathway of expansion and test between dispersal scenarios. The results clearly support a scenario in which groups first moved south throug...

The classification of kin into structured groups is a diverse phenomenon which is ubiquitous in human culture. For populations which are organized into large agropastoral groupings of sedentary residence but not governed within the context of a centralised state, such as our study sample of 83 historical Bantu-speaking groups of sub-Saharan Africa, cultural kinship norms guide all aspects of ev...

Cultural Effects on Sorghum Varieties Grown, Traits Preferred, and Seed Management Practices in Northern Ethiopia. Agrobiodiversity is fundamentally shaped by farmers’ preferences management practices, these are again the social cultural background. This study investigates variety seed practices crop sorghum ( bicolor ) among Kunama Tigrayan ethnolinguistic groups living side Surveys were condu...

Indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh have distinct mother tongues differentiating each eleven indigenous ethnic groups from one another with exclusive features and cultural traits. However, increasing dominance Bengalis CHT appears to pose a substantial threat linguistic diversities peoples. The Constitution several national policy documents, on other hand, expli...