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THE MISCLASSIFICATION OF BANTU LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE

The True Bantu or Bantu Beni Beni are the BaTonga and WaTutsi people of Africa.

The slave raids on the Niger-Congo populations to the West and the Nilotic populations in the North-Central Africa, forced these populations into Bantu territory in the Great Lakes Region and Southern Africa where they adopted fragments of the original Bantu languages spoken by the BaTonga and WaTutsi people.

In order to understand how Bantu people were misclassified, it is important to go back to approximately 1075BC, when the Kingdom of Punt or PaWantu became a myth in Ancient Egyptian consciousness.

At this time, the major ethnic groups in Africa and their locations were


 * The San who were located in South-East to Southern Africa
 * The BaTwa who were located in Central and Southern Africa
 * The Niger-Congo-Cameroonian Populations who were concentrated in modern day Angola and up to West African
 * The Amazigh who were located in North-West and North Africa
 * The Nilotics and Kushites who were located in modern day Sudan
 * The Ancient Egyptians in North-East Africa
 * The PaWantu/Punt Population along the North-East African coast, possibly the horn of Africa
 * The Omo-Valley Populations in modern day Ethiopia

This was also a time when African populations were concentrated to somewhat strict geographical regions, rarely moving away from what they knew. All modern day Africans are a combination of one or more of these groups.