While the majority of the world's population lives in places where they enjoy various modern comforts, from state-of-the-art ...

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 ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Dunga Nakuwa cups his face in his hands and remembers his mother's voice. She has been dead nearly two years, but for ...

This past week, I returned from a remarkable trip along the Omo River in the remote southwestern region of Ethiopia. Traveling through this amazing country, you quickly realize that many North ...

A prehistoric site near Lake Turkana, the lower valley of the Omo is renowned the world over. The discovery of many fossils there, especially Homo gracilis, has been of fundamental importance in the ...