to pitch the Ealinton Tournament tent in Central Africa, at the confluence of the Niger and the Tchadda, with the object of there founding a depot of religious and agricultural knowledge ...

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.

According to many traditions, Ethiopia was the land of the powerful Prester John's kingdom, as well as the home of the ten lost tribes. Persistent rumor had it that these African Israelite ...