The story of the Lemba
From a PBS site
Given all the racism, finding Cohen DNA among the Lemba doesn't mean that "white people" built Zimbabwe, but that Africa was not the "dark continent" but had trading links with the Middle East for at least 2000 years, maybe longer.
And the story of African kingdoms and the trading routes (including alas the Arab slave trade) is not a well documented story in the west.
Given all the racism, finding Cohen DNA among the Lemba doesn't mean that "white people" built Zimbabwe, but that Africa was not the "dark continent" but had trading links with the Middle East for at least 2000 years, maybe longer.
And the story of African kingdoms and the trading routes (including alas the Arab slave trade) is not a well documented story in the west.
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