Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African kingdoms and ... along the coast and ruled over tribes in the east and west of the ...

are Africa's shortest tribe, averaging under 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) in height. By contrast the median height of African males is 168cm, while that for women is 158cm. The Bambuti is a collective ...

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 ...

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.