This passage is vital for the trade routes connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, making control of this strait of extreme geopolitical importance. Despite its small size, Djibouti hosts military ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

A southern African tribe with tantalizing claims to an ancient Jewish heritage, the Lemba dispatched Parfitt on a journey of discovery that would take him halfway across Africa and into a remote ...

The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa: an Ethnographical Survey. Edited for the (South African) Inter-University Committee for African Studies by I. Schapera. Pp. xv + 453 + 24 plates.