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
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo
East Africa
…of the other countries. In a narrow sense, particularly in English speaking contexts, East Africa refers to the area comprising Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, largely due to their shared history of British administration and later cooperation through East African regional institutions. Further extending East…
A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the kingdom of Bunyoro, present-day Uganda, as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879
Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja
Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi II and his wife Sylvia Nagginda
The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda