In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

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.

A southern African tribe with tantalizing claims to an ancient ... because I'd just written a book on the exodus of the Falashas from Ethiopia to Israel. The lecture was mainly attended by white ...

Reality check: But until 2020, the existence of tribal reservations was a legal gray area. In a new book, "By the Fire We Carry," journalist Rebecca Nagle provides the fuller story of McGirt v.

Several shipments of material illustrating the daily life of the primitive tribes of the southern, Cameroon region in West Africa, and constituting a collection believed to be without parallel in ...