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 ...

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.

But he also believed that some African tribes were more naturally ... on the western front is because his people, the Wolof tribe of West Africa, were one of those peoples that the French colonial ...