This is another sketchbook doodle that I chose to color in digitally. The subject is a farmer lady representing the Proto-Bantu people, a subgroup of Niger-Congo speakers who would have lived in what is now Cameroon between 4500 and 4000 BC. Around 1000 BC, they would have expanded from that location across much of central and southern Africa, bringing agriculture and iron-working technology and diversifying into the various Bantu ethnic groups that dominate those regions of the continent to the present day.