DEMYSTIFYING THE MYTH OF THE LEMBA PEOPLE: MEMORY, DNA, AND THE BURDEN OF BELONGING
In the Dust of Forgotten Villages In the hills of Venda, across Limpopo and into Zimbabwe, live a people shrouded in both reverence and obscurity, the Lemba. Oral tradition hails them as descendants of ancient Jewish traders. Anthropologists once dismissed them as mythmakers. Geneticists have complicated the story, revealing a lineage that echoes across deserts […]