Swahili
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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language of the Atlantic–Congo language family, originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Estima
Although originally written with the Arabic script, Swahili is now written in a Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries and colonial administrators. The text shown here is the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer.
Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (c. early 1900s)
Loxodonta africana elephants frolic in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 2012.
Uganda
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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
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…the East African Community (EAC) countries, which are Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda. It is the lingua franca of other areas in the African Great Lakes region and East and Southern Africa. Swahili is also one of the working languages…
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