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East Africa is a diverse and geographically distinct region of Africa, with 18 sovereign states and 4 territories. It is the cradle of modern humans and has a rich and complex history of trade, migration, and cultural exchange.
The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation of eight countries in East Africa that aims to foster regional economic integration. The EAC was founded in 1967, collapsed in 1977, and was revived in 2000, and has plans to launch a monetary union and a regional constitution.
Learn how Africa is commonly divided into five regions or subregions by different criteria, such as direction, physiography, language, and official status. See the list of countries and territories in each region and their characteristics.
The Luo are a Nilotic ethnic group native to western Kenya and the Mara Region of northern Tanzania in East Africa. They speak Dholuo, a Western Nilotic language, and have a history of migration, cultural admixture and achievements in various fields.
The Kalenjin people are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to East Africa, with a presence, as dated by archaeology and linguistics, that goes back many centuries. Their history is therefore deeply interwoven with those of their neighboring communities as well as with the histories of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Learn about the prehistory, ancient history, colonial period, and post-colonial period of East Africa, a region of Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean and the Sahara Desert. Explore the geography, climate, culture, and politics of East Africa and its countries.
The East African Rift is an active continental rift zone where the African Plate is splitting into two microplates, the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate. It hosts many of the African Great Lakes and has a complex geologic evolution with competing theories on mantle plumes and superplumes.
The East African Federation (Swahili: Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is a proposed federal sovereign state consisting of the eight member states of East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. [6]