Scattered across the Mozambique Channel between Africa and Madagascar lie the Comoro Islands, the islands of the moon, home to the Comorians. A people born of the meeting of Bantu

The Dagomba are a major people of northern Ghana, the founders and heirs of the ancient kingdom of Dagbon, one of the oldest and most important states of the West

In the stark deserts and granite mountains of west-central Namibia live the Damara, who call themselves the ǂNūkhoen and are among the oldest inhabitants of the land. They pose a

At India’s eastern gate lies Manipur, a valley ringed by blue hills where the Meitei built a kingdom, their own script, a floating lake, the dancing Sangai deer, and one of India’s classical dances.

Deep in the rainforests and along the great rivers of Borneo live the Dayak, the indigenous peoples of the worlds third-largest island. Not a single tribe but a family of

Across the vast wetlands and savannas of the upper Nile in South Sudan live the Dinka, who call themselves Jieng, one of the largest peoples of the country and among

In the Duggar country of hills and plains, where the Punjab rises toward the high Himalaya, live the Dogra people of Jammu. Speakers of the Dogri language and famed across

In the mountains of the Levant lives a people set apart by a secret faith, the Druze. For a thousand years, sheltered in the highlands of Lebanon, Syria, and the

At the mouth of the Wouri River, where the great port city that bears their name now rises, live the Duala, a Bantu people of the Cameroonian coast. Fishermen and

The Edo, also called the Bini, are the people of Benin City and the surrounding region of Edo State in southern Nigeria, the heart of the historic Kingdom of Benin.