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The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region. Countries in the area which are bounded by the lakes of the Great Lakes region include Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda. [2]
The African Great Lakes kingdoms refers to the numerous historic kingdoms in the African Great Lakes region. These polities existed sometime between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries as independent kingdoms, and had similar and yet sometimes distinct cultures, values and traditions.
A keen hunter, he was fascinated by the early African explorers. In 1886, he accepted a suggestion by his friend and benefactor, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria , son of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph I , to turn the East African safari he was planning into a journey of exploration of the territories north of Lake Baringo .
Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. [2] It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. [3] Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. [4]
The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume.
A map of various pre-colonial African states from different periods, including Kitara, but with a bias towards West and North Africa.. Kitara [b] (sometimes spelt as Kittara [15] or Kitwara, [16] [3] also known as the Chwezi Empire [5]) was an ancient [c] legendary state that covered significant parts of western Uganda and is regularly mentioned in the oral traditions of the Banyoro, Batooro ...
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Topographic profile of Lake Malawi's rift shoulder The East African Rift (red) with the Rift Valley lakes, Malawi being in the south. Malawi is one of the major Rift Valley lakes and an ancient lake. The lake lies in a valley formed by the opening of the East African Rift, where the African tectonic plate is being split into two pieces. This is ...