Territory inhabited already in Prehistory, as evidenced by traces found in the regions of Lundas, Congo and the Namib Desert, only thousands of years later, in full protohistory, would receive more organized peoples. The first to settle were the Bochmanes - large hunters, of pygmy stature and light, of brownish color.

At the beginning of the sixth century AD, more advanced peoples, of black color, inserted technologically in the Age of the Metals, undertook one of the majors migrations of History. They were the Bantu and came from the north, probably from the region of the present Cameroon. These peoples, upon arriving in Angola, found the Bochmanes and other more primitive groups, easily imposing their technology in the fields of metallurgy, ceramics and agriculture. The installation of the Bantu took place over many centuries, generating several groups that would stabilize in ethnicities that continue to this day.