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Significant500 BCE – 500 CE · 1000 years

Bantu expansion into the Great Lakes

African Great Lakes · Lake Victoria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Centuries-long Bantu-speaking migration into the African Great Lakes, displacing earlier Twa and Cushitic populations; rarely framed as a single named war but is the demographic substrate of later interlacustrine politics.

Belligerents2

  • Bantu-speaking peoples
  • autochthonous Twa and Cushitic groups

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Bantu expansion into the Great Lakes (500 BCE – 500 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/bantu-expansion-into-the-great-lakes · Sources & methodology