WE have long needed an authoritative work on the Bushmen and Hottentots of South Africa. The former are an extremely important people for the ethnologist, and from them the Hottentots cannot be ...

The Bambuti tribe, also know as Mbuti, 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 ...

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.