Bantu kalma ce ta gama gari ga kabilu daban-daban sama da 400 a Afirka, daga Kamaru zuwa Afirka ta Kudu, waɗanda ke da iyali ɗaya na harshe ɗaya ( Yarukan Bantu ) kuma a yawancin lokuta al'adun gama gari. Bantu hijirar Binciken zamanin ƙarfe na farko a gabashin da kudancin Afirka J. Desmond Clark, Tarihin Tarihin Afirka, Thames da Hudson, 1970 Afrilu A. Gordon da Donald L. Gordon, Fahimtar Afirka ta Zamani, Lynne Riener, London, 1996 Kevin Shillington, Tarihin Afirka, St Martin's Press, New York, 1995 (1989)