Bantu

12,800 Years Ago

African Flood stories

The great god Unkulunkulu warns people of a flood, and they survive by climbing the Drakensberg mountains.

A comprehensive list with the Flood Legends, grouped by continent.

Credo Mutwa

Women were mining

Mutwa explains that the mining of gold and other metals was an important activity in ancient South Africa, carried out by the indigenous people.

The Bantu peoples form an ethnolinguistic group comprising around 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.

The little people would eventually integrate into other African races such as the Bergdama and the Bushman

The Ngwenya Mine is estimated to be around 43,000 years old, making it one of the oldest mines known to humans.