ABSTRACT

It is necessary to consider that the African continent contains vast rainforests and deserts, but 30 per cent of Germany’s surface area is also covered with forests. The ruins of Great Zimbabwe are located 300 kilometres inland, a direct distance from the Indian Ocean, where old Chinese pottery similar to those in the gusuku has been discovered. The free movement of people across borders is generally not allowed in the modern world, where land and people are captured, counted, measured, and registered by a central authority. Bantu people make up a majority of the African continent’s inhabitants today. They are linguistically defined as speakers of Bantu languages, including today’s Kiswahili, who expanded their living space through migration to frontiers surrounding their villages. To regulate the relationship between hosts and guests, many Western countries once adopted a policy principle called multiculturalism.