The southwestern regions of the Central African Republic and the northern Republic of Congo are home to the Aka (also known as Bayaka), a nomadic tribe of hunter-gatherers who, from a Western ...

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.

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.

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...