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Southeast Africa

Prior to the arrival of Bantus in Southeast Africa, Cushitic -speaking peoples had migrated into the region from the Ethiopian Highlands and other more northerly areas. The first waves consisted of Southern Cushitic speakers, who settled around Lake Turkana and parts of Tanzania beginning around 5,000 years ago. Many centuries later, around AD 1000, some Eastern Cushitic speakers also settled in northern and coastal Kenya.

Khoisan -speaking hunter-gatherers also inhabited Southeast Africa before the Bantu expansion.

Nilo-Saharan -speaking herder populations comprised a third group of the area's pre-Bantu expansion inhabitants.