The Bambuti live in villages that are categorized as bands. Each hut houses a family unit. At the start of the dry season, they leave the village to enter the forest and set up a series of camps. …

Camps and huts of the Bakoya Pygmies of Gabon, with photos, sounds and ethnographic notes.

Constraints caused by urbanisation produced a highveld type of style housing, shack-like, structures coalesced with corrugated metal sheeting (introduced during the British …

A structural analysis of the traditional homesteads of Bantu-speaking peoples in Southern Africa. This analysis became the foundation for the development of the archaeological model of the …

The arrangement of the huts shown in figure 1 is superficially similar, but the differences in detail are suggestive. There are four basic variations. First, the entrance to the cattle-byre may be …

2024年1月26日 · In-depth studies of selected woven African huts, such as Zulu huts, Dorze huts, and Nama huts, reveal their nature as socio-climatic architecture. Zulu huts are dome-shaped …

2023年4月27日 · Rondavels are traditional huts found in southern Africa that have been used for centuries by indigenous tribes as dwellings. These unique structures stands out by their …

Mgungundlovu was the military capital of Dingane, king of the Zulu between 1829 and 1838. Comtemporary visitors (traders, missionaries and Voortrekkers) to the complex left much …

2024年3月6日 · Traditional Hausa architecture is characterized by its distinctive mud-brick buildings, known as “mudhuts” or “bantu huts,” which feature intricate designs and cooling …

By about the 7th century BC, at the start of the Early African Iron Age, these West African, Bantu-speaking agriculturalists were establishing villages and built huts with circular floor plans, …