Needless to say, the matter is most keenly felt in the Ukraine, and on 13 January 2010, a Ukrainian court found Joseph Stalin, among numerous other Soviet officials of the period, posthumously guilty of genocide. 2002). [28] Where Bantu was adopted via language shift of existing populations, prior African languages were spoken, probably from African language families that are now lost, except as substrate influences of local Bantu languages (such as click sounds in local Bantu languages). Over the next 500 years, Bantu-speakers moved eight times the previous distance (an average of 4000km). The Israeli historian and scholar Yehuda Bauer, in probably the most frequent declaration on why it happened, proclaimed that the Holocaust was rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest. There are no reliable figures, but the combined death toll of the Mfecane is estimated to be upwards of 2 million. It is reprinted here with the agreement of the R.S.A.Google Scholar, 2 Johnston, H. H., A survey of the ethnography of Africa: and the former racial and tribal migrations of that continent, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, XLIII (1913), 3912.Google Scholar, 3 Wrigley, C. C., Speculations on the economic prehistory of Africa, Journal of African History, I (1960), 201.Google Scholar, 4 McBurney, C. B. M., The Stone Age of Northern Africa (1960), 234.Google Scholar. The BenueCongo branch includes the Bantu languages, which are found throughout Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa. It was only by the spurious acquisition and manipulation of treaties with native kings and rulers that most European powers took the title of Africa. Derek Nurse und Grard Philippson: The Bantu Languages. Africa's World War: The Congo War - History Guild
