Are the Khoisan or Bantu the original natives of Africa?

Answer 1

The answer is "Yes!" Both Bantu languages and Khoisan languages originated in Africa, and those are language groups, not races. The people who speak those languages have mixed with each other a lot, especially as Bantu speakers spread into areas where people had been speaking Khoisan languages.

Africa is a big place, where humanity originated and first differentiated. Bantu languages and the larger language phylum they belong to, Kongo-Kordofanian, originated in West Africa, although they spread to areas formerly inhabited by Khoisan speakers in southern and eastern Africa. Nilo-Saharan languages also originated in Africa but never spread as far. Believe it or not, even the Afro-Asiatic languages, including Semitic languages, originated in Africa and spread outside of the continent. But then humanity ourselves originated in Africa and spread outside.

So I guess we're all original natives of Africa.

Answer 2

I't Varies by region but it is not the bantu's.

You see the bantu's where aggresive people and there influence in the area grew and they supresed smaller tribes. much like English came from england and "replaced" the gaelic,Scotich and welsh languages. Bantu people came and changed there languages to a bantu language.

So for all intesive purposed it is not the bantu although they are a very important ethnic group in Africa and the Khoisan are a major ethnic/language group aswell.

So to re cape neither of them are the "natives" of Africa.

Answer 3

Bantu for sure. They originated from around Central Cameroon.
The inhabitants of southern Africa are a mix of Bantu and Khosian poelpe.

Answer 4

for sure its bantu.

Answer 5

From what I gather, they're not only that, they're exactly what the first Homo sapiens looked like. They're the first PEOPLE, really.

Answer 6

yeah.they are pure africans
uh no they were not the first people though.