You mean they were paid to be short? Did they all work in the circus? As clowns or something?
They were quite cute and adorable and got ALL the girls. There are something like 14 major lines of humanity (looking at the mtDNA). The San/Sen are ancestral to all of them ~ so, no, your ancient African ancestors weren’t Bantus at all. On the other hand, the Nilotic peoples of all varieties derive from the same folk as the European and East Asian people.