East Africa

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     East Africa      Countries sometimes included in East Africa

East Africa is the most eastern region of the African continent. There are different ways to describe the area East Africa covers - it can be defined by geography or countries. It has some of the earliest found fossils of humans.

East Africa Media

• Map of East Africa Countries

• Reconstruction of a female Australopithecus afarensis

• The Hadza people are descendants of Tanzania's aboriginal, pre-Bantu expansion hunter-gatherer population.

• Early Iron Age findings in East and Southern Africa

• The Island of Mozambique was occupied by Portuguese explorers in the late 15th century.

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  Arab-Swahili slave traders and their captives on the Ruvuma River

• A group of Shilluk, ca 1860.jpg

  A group of Shilluk in around 1860

• Der Durchbruch der Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika über den Rowuma MItte November 1917. Darstellung von Carl Arriens.jpg

  The Battle of Ngomano during the East African campaign in November 1917

• Military Parade of Italian Troops in Addis Ababa (1936).jpg

  Italian troops in Addis Ababa, 1936