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 Coastal Bantu tribes include: The Bantu people originated from West Central Africa, specifically in what is now Cameroon and Nigeria. Some theories suggest that they came from the highland ...

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 ...