It reached the northern Sahara around 7000 years ago and continued to spread down the African continent, where it was adopted by the Bantu tribes of West Africa.
Vafikile e n'walungwini wa Sahara kwalomu ka 7000 wa malembe lawa ya hundzeke naswona vahangalakile na tiko nkulu ra Afrika, laha vanga fika va tekiwa hi tinxaka ta Bantu ta West Africa.