Residing in northern Zimbabwe, this tribe is renowned for a rare genetic defect prevalent among its members: ectrodactyly, a condition also referred to as lobster claw syndrome. Ectrodactyly leads ...

The Vadoma Tribe of Zimbabwe are unique among other African Tribes. The legend says that Bird Gods came down from the sky and married their women, leading this tribe to have ostrich-like feet.

Despite being the first to settle in Zimbabwe, the minority Khoisan tribe remains poverty-stricken centuries after settling in the country where for generation after generation they have hugely ...

The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots ... It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which have ...

has been only partly answered. The Lemba, including Professor Mathiva, the tribe's spiritual leader (above), believe that their ancestors built Great Zimbabwe. To wit: Which Africans built it?

Yet until recently, the Lemba of Zimbabwe had no synagogues ... begun in the 1990s that confirmed the Semitic origin of the tribe. Lemba men carry the Cohen Modal Haplotype, a set of Y chromosome ...

One of the country's most isolated and reclusive tribes has very little knowledge about the forthcoming referendum and elections, an aspiring MDC-T parliamentary candidate claimed on Friday.

DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of Jewish or Semitic origin, the BBC reported. The tribe's customs are similar to Jewish ones ...

In South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, tens of thousands of blacks have, in recent years, declared themselves descendants of one of the Lost Tribes. The Lemba claim to have been cut off from ...