<answer>Bantu</answer>-speaking peoples who founded tribes during the <answer>Bantu</answer> expansions largely displaced and absorbed the earliest inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500 BC. The Bakongo, a <answer>Bantu</answer> ethnic group that also occupied parts of present-day Angola, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those countries. Several <answer>Bantu</answer> kingdoms—notably those of the Kongo, the Loango, and the Teke—built trade links leading into the Congo River basin.
The Bakongo were a group derived from which tribes?
Bantu