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Episode four - how the Bantu spread into east and southern Africa.

From the dawn of time the Khoisan people or Basarwa people survived by hunting and foraging. But 500 years before the birth of Christ came a quite different group of people from west Africa - the Bantu. But did they arrive as conquerors, colonisers or explorers?

"I think the Bantu question is important because it is a way of trying to understand the history of African peoples, and how African peoples interacted with each other." Dr Chapurukha Kusimba of The Field Museum of the University of Illinois.

Presented by Hugh Quarshie.