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  2. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    2.1 North-East Africa and the ... has a long history in north and east Africa, ... and on the open savanna at a time when Africa was drying up and the savanna was ...

  3. East Africa Protectorate - Wikipedia

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    East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west.

  4. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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    Swahili played a major role in spreading both Christianity and Islam in East Africa. From their arrival in East Africa, Arabs brought Islam and set up madrasas, where they used Swahili to teach Islam to the natives. As the Arab presence grew, more and more natives converted to Islam and were taught using the Swahili language. From the arrival ...

  5. Maasai Mara - Wikipedia

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    The terrain of the reserve is primarily open grassland with seasonal riverlets. In the south-east region are clumps of the distinctive acacia tree. The western border is the Esoit (Siria) Escarpment of the East African Rift, which is a system of rifts some 5600 km long, from Ethiopia's Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique ...

  6. German East Africa - Wikipedia

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    German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.

  7. Lake Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6] [7] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9]

  8. Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    Combined green: Definition of "sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of United Nations institutions Lighter green: The Sudan, classified as a part of North Africa by the United Nations Statistics Division [2] instead of Eastern Africa, though the organization states that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any ...

  9. Mount Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Topo map: Mount Kenya by Wielochowski and Savage [2] [3]: Geology; Mountain type: Stratovolcano (extinct): Last eruption: 2.6–3.1 MYA: Climbing; First ascent: 13 September 1899 by Mackinder, Ollier, and Brocherel, although the peoples of Kenya believed God (Ngai in Gikuyu) resided on this mountain and regularly ascended the peaks to perform spiritual rites.