This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The men beside him murmur in assent. It's late at night, deep in the East African bush. Singing, a rhythmic ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Dunga Nakuwa cups ... hard as the trails leading down to the river. Men from his tribe, the Kara, are renowned marksmen.

This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... features of the African interior—dark brown skin, kinky hair, and broad noses. Two men have olive complexions ...

15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... of early 20th-century explorers: bearded men standing on Kotelnyy Island, dwarfed ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shadrack Nyongesa ... boys from the Venda tribe in Tshifudi, South Africa, engage in the boxing tradition known ...

This story appears in the December 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Cape Town’s ... he were to look up and notice a line of men toiling up a hillside path with heavy sacks on ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn ... when Namibia at last gained independence from South Africa, it was one of the first countries in the world ...