 Batanga is part of the Congo, or so-called Bantu part of Cameroon. Some people think of Bantu and Congo as synonymous, but there are many so-called Bantu peoples and languages. Well, the great Bantu migration, which gradually spread out over a period of 5,000 years or so to populate the whole of Africa south of Cameroon, has Cameroon as its conjectured homeland. I asked George Mabele for his take on the name Batanga.