This episode in Africa's past has often been ignored but its implications for the future development of the continent is crucial. Bantu is the word widely used as a description of a body of people ...

And the institute says at least 60% of those slaves were Bantu. "Our history is not very well known," he says. "The city was built right on top to hide it," he says. The site was only recently ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.