IN the 19th C. BANTU was the generally accepted name for those natives of South Africa (the great majority) who are neither Hottentots nor Bushmen-that is to say, mainly, the Zulus, Xosas, Basuto, and Bechuana -to whom may be added the Thongas (Shangaans) of the Delagoa Bay region and the people of (then Southern Rhodesia, now) Zimbabwe. Southern Africa consists of 13 sovereign states and covers an area of approximately 9,276 million kilometres?. By comparison the USA is 9,826 million kilometres?. Abantu is the Zulu word for "the people" (in Sesuto batho, and in Herero ovandu) which was adopted by Bleek, at the suggestion of Sir George Grey, as the name for the great family of languages now known to cover practically the whole southern half of Africa. But to speak of a "Bantu race" is misleading. The Bantu-speaking peoples vary greatly in physical stature: some of them hardly differ from some of the "Sudanic"-speaking Negroes of West Africa, while others show a type which has been...