East Africa
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East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its unique geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Reconstruction of a female Australopithecus afarensis
The Hadza people are descendants of Tanzania's aboriginal, pre-Bantu expansion hunter-gatherer population.
Egyptian soldiers bear tree branches and axes from a trading expedition to the Land of Punt
Puntites including their Queen, bearing tributes, represented in the classic reddish-brown colouring as Egyptians
Tanzania
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Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest, Kenya to the northeast, the Indian O
East Africa
…in the region. Since post-colonial independence the region has grown to be a populous region, with a 2017 estimate of over 537.9 million inhabitants. Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia are some of the largest economies in the region. Many of the countries are still dominated by rural workforces employed in…
A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum
A 1572 depiction of the city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The slave market in Zanzibar, c. 1860
Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905