The correct answer is C) trade.
The MOST significant reason Bantu people settled near rivers and lakes was trade.
In Africa, the Bantu people is a general name to classify nearly four hundred different ethnic groups from Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa. Language and traditions are the common factors that united this group of people. They used to settle near rivers for the many advantages it represented. One of them, trade. They trade with European nations.
Today, Bantu people can be found in South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda.
