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 ...

90, No. 1/2, 2016 The Return to Ethiopia of the Twelve Tri... Twenty-eight years ago, F.J. van Dijk published in the New West Indian Guide what remained for a long time the only scholarly paper on the ...

The Bodi people live in Ethiopia’s South Omo Valley - Bodi spiritual leader Baradhi here with his daughter Choma. Bodi girls Choma (L) and her sister wearing red ochre for a dance. Bodi boy from ...

I'll stay." For generations the tribes of the Omo were shielded from the outside world by mountains, savanna, and by Ethiopia's unique status as the only African nation never to have been ...

a body modification found in the Suri and Mursi tribes of Ethiopia. Warriors draped in blue “blankets” (or Seanamarena) soon followed, drawn from the Basotho peoples of South Africa.

Their isolation was further extended by Ethiopia's unique status as one of ... In the absence of significant external influences, the various tribes of the Omo carried on with their customs ...