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**Herimoisige** · 09-08-2010, 06:53 AM

Slick,

Bantus are not less than 5,000

They are the biggest minority group, at least 300,000 of them some estimates go even as high as 900,000.

AFAIK the majority of bantus now reside in Daadaab refugee camp, which is in Kenya. I really would find it surprising to have that many Bantus still residing in anarchic Somalia, they'd be too vulnerable to alot of dangers

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I'm guessing that due to the clannish nature of Somalia in general, they too stick to their own? Or do they also engage in any wars/battles?
Do these Bantus have any sense of a Somali national identity, like for example do they call themselves Somali when they immigrate to other lands?

AFAIK, no...they have a distinct ethnic identity. Somalis have derogatory terms to name them (which is not uncommon a phenomona in the Horn for minority groups to experience). They refer to themselves by the collective Niger-Congo term of "Mushungulu".

They may have been some slight Somali nationalism among the Bantu during independence to the 1980s...but subsequent events have hardened them to completely disassociate themselves from Somalis, especially when overseas. Completely understandable.

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Herimoisige Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 412 Senior Member	Slick, Bantus are not less than 5,000 They are the biggest minority group, at least 300,000 of them some estimates go even as high as 900,000. AFAIK the majority of bantus now reside in Daadaab refugee camp, which is in Kenya. I really would find it surprising to have that many Bantus still residing in anarchic Somalia, they'd be too vulnerable to alot of dangers ---------- Post added 2010-09-08 at 12:05 ---------- I'm guessing that due to the clannish nature of Somalia in general, they too stick to their own? Or do they also engage in any wars/battles? Do these Bantus have any sense of a Somali national identity, like for example do they call themselves Somali when they immigrate to other lands? AFAIK, no...they have a distinct ethnic identity. Somalis have derogatory terms to name them (which is not uncommon a phenomona in the Horn for minority groups to experience). They refer to themselves by the collective Niger-Congo term of "Mushungulu". They may have been some slight Somali nationalism among the Bantu during independence to the 1980s...but subsequent events have hardened them to completely disassociate themselves from Somalis, especially when overseas. Completely understandable.
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