A report on East Africa
Eastern subregion of the African continent.
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Burundi
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Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi (Repuburika y’Uburundi, ; Swahili: Jamuhuri ya Burundi; French: République du Burundi, or ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge.
Nile
4 linksMajor north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
The White Nile starts in equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile begins in Ethiopia.
Subregion
2 linksPart of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location.
Part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location.
Eastern Africa
Bantu expansion
5 linksHypothesis of major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Hypothesis of major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
In Eastern and Southern Africa, Bantu speakers may have adopted livestock husbandry from other unrelated Cushitic-and Nilotic-speaking peoples they encountered.
Early modern human
3 linksEarly modern human (EMH) or anatomically modern human (AMH) are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans from extinct archaic human species.
Early modern human (EMH) or anatomically modern human (AMH) are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans from extinct archaic human species.
![Overview map of the peopling of the world by anatomically modern humans (numbers indicate dates in thousands of years ago [ka])](https://hyperleap.com/images/ab8bc612a5c2adb0b614c5d632bfa513/200-9ce3074f9b00aa9ffe1220ccff9b5c07.jpg)
In September 2019, scientists proposed that the earliest H. sapiens (and last common human ancestor to modern humans) arose between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago through a merging of populations in East and South Africa.
Bantu peoples
5 linksThe Bantu peoples, or Bantu, are several hundred ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages, spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.
The Bantu peoples, or Bantu, are several hundred ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages, spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.
They were supposedly spread across Central, East and Southern Africa in the so-called Bantu expansion, a comparatively rapid dissemination taking roughly two millennia and dozens of human generations during the 1st millennium BC and the 1st millennium AD, This concept has often been framed as a mass-migration, but Jan Vansina and others have argued that it was actually a cultural spread and not the movement of any specific populations that could be defined as an enormous group simply on the basis of common language traits.
Scramble for Africa
4 linksThe invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism .
The invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism .
In the middle of the 19th century, European explorers mapped much of East Africa and Central Africa.
North Africa
5 linksRegion encompassing the northern portion of the African continent.
Region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent.
Some researchers have postulated that North Africa rather than East Africa served as the exit point for the modern humans who first trekked out of the continent in the Out of Africa migration.
Recent African origin of modern humans
3 linksDominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
Dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
By some 50–70,000 years ago, a subset of the bearers of mitochondrial haplogroup L3 migrated from East Africa into the Near East.
Portuguese Mozambique
4 linksDesignated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
Designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Swahili commercial settlements had existed along the Swahili Coast and outlying islands for several centuries.