Swahili
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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family, originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Estimates
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.
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