Igor Sakala Matonda

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• Doctor of Education
• Professor (Associate) at University of Kinshasa

The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and biological landscape of the continent1–7. With a comprehensive genomic dataset, including newly generated data of modern-day and ancient DNA from previously unsampled regions in Afri...

Early West-Coastal Bantu (WCB) would have been spoken by the first Bantu speakers south of them rainforest ~2,500 BP (Bostoen et al. 2015; Grollemund et al. 2015). From its homeland between the Kasai and Kamtsha Rivers in the present-day DRC, WCB would have undergone two expansions to the Atlantic Coast, a southern at the origin of the Kikongo Lang...

Since 2018, the BantuFirst project has engaged in a cross-disciplinary research program across multiple regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Here we present results of three years of intensive archaeological research focused on Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe provinces, DRC, including the major river systems (Kwilu, Kasai, Kamtsha, and Loang...

With the largest genomic dataset to date of Bantu-speaking populations, including newly generated data of modern-day and ancient DNA from previously unsampled regions in Africa, we shed fresh light on the expansion of peoples speaking Bantu languages that started ∼4000 years ago in western Africa. We have genotyped 1,740 participants, including 1,4...

En septembre 2015 et janvier 2016, suite à une initiative du gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo concernant la « Route de l’esclave » (http:// www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/ themes/slave-route/), des enquêtes historiques et des prospections archéologiques ont été menées à l’embouchure du fleuve Congo entre Boma et...