"Bantu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... volume of the work deals largely with the conquest of the colony. It is mainly a narrative of the deeds of the conquering leaders of the colonists, closing with an account of the destruction of the Bantu tribes. In succession, we read here about the exploits of James Henry Craig, Earl McCartney, Major General Dundas, Sir George Younge, Jacob Abraham De Mist, J.W. Janssens, General David Baird, Du Pre Alexander, Lord Charles Somerset, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... hair is crisp and kinky. Perhaps rather owing to the generosity of their slave law, and Koran teachings, more than to racial depravity, there are not very many Arabs left in that part of the world with true semitic features and straight hair, nor many woolly-headed folk who are quite all-Bantu. There is enough Arab blood in all of them to make them bold; Bantu enough for syncopated, rag-time music to take them by the toes and stir them. The crowd in the street grew, and gathered until a policeman in red fez and khaki knickerbockers came ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... another message came from the khan, desiring again to know on what account I had come to his court; to which I answered, that this might be known from the letters of Bantu. But they said that these letters were lost, and the khan had forgotten their contents, and would know of me. Somewhat emboldened by this, I said, "The duty and office of our religion is to preach the gospel unto all. Wherefore, having heard of the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... us, bearing in mind what our people have done and suffered by the help of God. In this way we may be enabled to continue the work of our fathers, and possibly to complete it. Their deeds of heroism in adventures with Bantu and Briton shine forth like guiding stars through the history of the past, in order to point out the way for posterity to reach that goal for which our sorely tried people have made such great sacrifices, and for which they ...
— A Century of Wrong • F. W. Reitz |
Words linked to "Bantu" : LuGanda, Tonga, Bantu-speaking, Kamba, Giriama, Batswana, Mwera, African, Chagga, Luyia, Umbundu, Watutsi, Sotho, Hutu, Nguni, Chichewa, Tutsi, ChiMwini, Nyamwezi, Mashi, Kongo, Chiluba, Pokomo, Watusi, Swahili, Luba, Tshiluba, Kichaga, Chaga, Bechuana, Chishona, Kinyarwanda, Shona, Tswana, Niger-Congo, Herero, Kiswahili, Gikuyu, fang |
