Filmed over a four-year period, this visually stunning five-part series intimately captures weddings, funerals, rites of passage, and celebrations among seven of Africa’s fierce yet spiritual warrior tribes. Sharing a proud and violent past and an uncertain future, do the men and women depicted in these programs represent the final heirs of their ancient ways of life? 5-part series, 53-54 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : The Hamar and Karo Tribes: The Search for Mingi | The Mursi Tribe: The Day of the Donga | The Wodaabe and Tuareg Nomads: Stealing Beauty | The Afar Tribe: A Bride's Story | The Dinka Tribe: Man of the Men

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