Ennimi z’abantu b’omu Tropical Africa, ezibeera mu bukiikaddyo bw’amaka g’Abasemitic-Hamitic, mu kiseera kino zitera okugattibwa mu maka abiri: Niger (Congo)-Kordofan ne Nilo-Saharan. Ekibinja kya Niger-Kordofanian kirimu ekibinja kya Niger-Congo – ebibinja ebisinga obungi era ebigatta: West Atlantic, Mande, Volts, Kwa, Benue-Congo ne Adamawa-Eastern. Abantu b’omu West Atlantic mulimu abantu abangi aba Fulbe ababeera mu bibinja eby’enjawulo kumpi mu mawanga gonna aga Western ne Central Sudan, Wolof ne Serep (Senegal), n’amalala.ebitundu ebya waggulu eby’emigga Senegal ne Niger (Guinea, Mali, n’ebirala. ), abantu b’e Volta (moy, loby, bobo, Senufo, n’ebirala) – mu Burkina Faso, Ghana n’amawanga amalala. Abantu b’e Kwa mulimu abantu abanene ab’oku lubalama lw’ennyanja Guinea ng’Abayoruba n’Abaibo (Nigeria), Abaaka (Ghana) n’Abaewe (Benin ne Togo); okumpi n’Abawere be bava emabega, ababeera mu bukiikaddyo era oluusi bayitibwa Dahomeans; ekifo ekyetongodde ekitono kibeera abantu aboogera ennimi (oba enjogera) ez’Abakru. Bano be Bakwe, Grebo, Krahn n’abantu abalala ababeera mu Liberia ne Ivory Coast (Ivory Coast). Ekibinja ekitono ekya Benue-Congo kikolebwa abantu bangi, edda nga kigambibwa nti kyava mu maka ga Bantu ag’enjawulo n’ekibinja ky’Ababantu ab’ebuvanjuba. Abantu b’e Bantu, abafaanagana ennyo mu nnimi n’obuwangwa, babeera mu nsi z’Amasekkati n’ekitundu mu Buvanjuba n’Obugwanjuba (Democratic Republic of the Congo (eyali Zaire), Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, n’ebirala). Bantu abakugu mu nnimi bazigabanyaamu ebibinja 15: 1st – duala, lupdu, fang, n’ebirala; Eky’okubiri -teke, mpongwe, kele; Ekyokusatu – bangi, pgala, mongo, tetelya; Eky’okuna – Rwanda, rundi; 5th – ganda, luhya, kikuyu, kamba; Ow’omukaaga-nyamwezi, nyatura; 7th – Oluswayiri, togo, hehe; Eky’omunaana – Kongo, ambundu; eky’omwenda-chokwe, luena; Eky’ekkumi-luba; Eky’ekkumi n’ekimu-bemba, fipa, tonga; 12 – Malawi 13 – Yao, Makonde, Makua; Eky’ekkumi n’ena – ovimbundu, ambo, herero; 15th – Shona, Suto, Zulu, Spit, Swazi, n'ebirala.
Ennimi z’Ababantu era zoogerwa ebibinja by’Abapygmy ab’omu Congo Basin (Efe, Basu A, Bambuti, n’ebirala), ebiseera ebisinga baawulwamu ng’abantu ab’enjawulo. Mu Bantus ab’ebuvanjuba n’amasekkati, olulimi Oluswayiri, olufunye okufugibwa okweyoleka okw’Oluwarabu, lufuuse lwa maanyi mu myaka egiyise, omuwendo gw’abo abaluyogera guli obukadde 60 (abantu b’Oluswayiri bali obukadde 1.9). Aba adamaua, ekibinja ekitono eky’ebuvanjuba, mulimu Abazande, Cham-Ba, Banda, n’abalala ababeera mu masekkati n’obuvanjuba bwa Sudan.