Lemba people

The Lemba are an ethnic group currently residing in South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, of mixed Bantu and Yemeni ancestry.

Since the late twentieth century, there has been increased media and scholarly attention about the Lemba's common partial descent from Semitic peoples of West Asia. Genetic Y-DNA analyses have established a paternal West Asian origin for the majority of the Lemba population, while the matrilineal origins are exclusively from Sub Saharan Africa.