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5 unusual facts about East Africa


Adeso

When people’s needs are urgent, Adeso is able to respond promptly and efficiently, very often using a form of aid they pioneered in East Africacash transfers.

African Rifles

The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from the various British possessions in East Africa created in 1902

Balilla-class submarine

They were large ocean-going cruiser submarines designed to operate in the Indian Ocean based in Italy's East African colonies.

Kate Bertram

Part of the 1930s "Cambridge school" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa.

Michael Gwynn

During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a major and was adjutant to the 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion of the King's African Rifles.


Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

The game takes place over a number of locations, including: Miami, East Africa, Dubai and the Middle East, Russia (Derbent, the Black Sea, Caucasus, and Moscow specifically), and Washington, D.C. Fictional towns and cities were also used, including Mogadiyu, Carruth, and Belyi Base (believed to be based on Belaya).

Afrocimex constrictus

Afrocimex constrictus, also called the African bat bug, is an insect parasite of Egyptian fruit bats in bat caves in East Africa.

Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi

His two youngest sons were Talib, later governor of Nakhal and then of Rustaq, and Muhammad, later Governor-General of Mombasa and Oman's East African possessions.

Airspeed Consul

The Consul saw service with small scheduled and charter airlines as feeder liners in Great Britain, and also Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, East Africa and Canada, and was the first type operated by Malayan Airways, the predecessor of Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines.

Alberico Albricci

Born in Gallarate, the son of a noble family, he graduated in his twenties from Modena Military Academy; then he served in East Africa in 1888-89.

Antoni Jakubski

In 1909-1910, he traveled to East Africa, becoming, on 13 March 1910, the first Pole to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Antrophyum mannianum

Antrophyum mannianum is a species of the genus Antrophyum (fern family Vittariaceae) occurring in the African rain forest and montane forest of East Africa and the Albertine Rift.

Anuak people

The Anuak , also known as the Anyuak, Agnwak and Anywaa, are a Luo Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of East Africa.

Arabian smooth-hound

The Arabian smooth-hound, Mustelus mosis, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the tropical western Indian Ocean from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka between latitudes 30° N and 7° N, at depths of between 20 and 250 m.

Archaeopotamus

Fossils of Archaeopotamus have been unearthed near Lake Turkana, Kenya; near Lake Victoria in Kenya and in Abu Dhabi and thus likely ranged across East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Ayi Kwei Armah

In the 1970s, he worked as a teacher in East Africa, at the College of National Education, Chang'ombe, Tanzania, and at the National University of Lesotho.

Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice

It is shorter than the Bachelor of Clinical Medicine and Community Health degree awarded to Clinical officers in East Africa but similar to the three-year diploma.

Bhadala

A second migration took place in the 19th Century, which saw many Bhadala move to Mombasa, Lamu and Daresalam in East Africa.

Bulls Head Ground

The Bulls Head has also hosted ICC Trophy matches, starting in the 1979 ICC Trophy when it held a single match which was contested between Argentina and East Africa and in the 1986 ICC Trophy when it hosted a single match between Bangladesh and East Africa.

Cirolana mercuryi

Cirolana mercuryi is a species of isopod found on coral reefs off Bawe Island, (Zanzibar, Tanzania) in East Africa and named for Freddie Mercury, "arguably Zanzibar's most famous popular musician and singer".

Cliff Morgan

His last game of first-class rugby was for the Barbarians on 28 May 1958 at the RFUEA Ground, Nairobi, versus East Africa.

Clive Rowlands

He captained Wales in every game he played including Wales' first match outside of Europe and its first in the Southern Hemisphere; played against East Africa in Nairobi on 12 May 1964, Wales winning 8-26.

Ctenoplectrini

Dry and cool mid-Miocene climates also coincide with the divergence between Ctenoplectra bequaerti from West Africa, and Ctenoplectra terminalis from East Africa and Southern Africa, perhaps related to fragmentation of the equatorial African rainforest belt.

Echinoecus pentagonus

The "sea urchin crab" Echinoecus pentagonus is a species of crab in the family Pilumnidae found from the Red Sea and East Africa to French Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands.

Hans H. Indorf

He worked and studied in Egypt (1945–1947); Great Britain (1947–1950); Scandinavia (1952, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976); Western Europe (1953-1955 1968, 1969, 1970. 1971-1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976); India, Burma and East Asia (1962, 1964 and 1965); Malaysia (1962–1965, 1974 and 1975); Southeast Asia (1962. 1964, 1974 and 1975); Afghanistan, Vietnam and Taiwan (1964); USSR (1964, 1971); Hungary (1973); East Africa (1965) and Ceylon-Sri Lanka (1975).

Henry Wanyoike

His mother Grace brought him to the Kikuyu Eye Clinic (a nearby hospital supported by Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI), recognised as one of the best centers for the visually impaired in East Africa.

Hymenaea protera

Both morphology and DNA studies have revealed that H. protera was more closely related to the only species of Hymenaea remaining in East Africa than to the more numerous American species.

James Smoot Coleman

From 1967 to 1978, while in Africa, Coleman was an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation and served as its representative for East Africa and Zaire.

James Somerville

The Japanese advance through Burma and their capture of the Andaman Islands enforced the move of the bulk of the Eastern Fleet to Addu Atoll and to Kilindini in East Africa.

James Theodore Bent

After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa.

January 2007 in Africa

Somali official says that a senior al-Qaeda suspect responsible for bombing U.S. embassies in East Africa eight years ago is possibly killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Battle of Ras Kamboni.

John Dawes

He was selected for Wales' first overseas tour later the same year and played in the Welsh rugby team's first match outside of Europe and its first in the Southern Hemisphere; played against East Africa in Nairobi on 12 May 1964, Wales winning 8–26.

John Robin Stephenson

He managed a club tour to East Africa in 1980-1981, during which his powers of diplomacy came to the fore during a difficult situation at Nairobi Airport.

Maria Kiwanuka

She also served as a non-Executive board member on the Board of Directors of the Aga Khan Foundation (East Africa), the Nabagereka Development Trust, Nkumba University, Uganda Development Bank and Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited.

Mary Leakey

For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge, in eastern Africa, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for Commonwealth operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and also those in East Africa, Persia, and the Balkans, including Greece.

Mombasa Air Services

Air Charter services throughout East Africa but mainly to Amboseli, Tsavo, Mara, Samburu, Lamu and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and in Tanzania Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti plus Zanzibar.

Nairobi Club Ground

It is the oldest cricket ground in Kenya, and was the first to get a turf wicket, which was laid by Don Pringle, who played for East Africa in the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

Nungwi

Nungwi is a fishermen's village and a tourist attraction located at the northernmost tip of Unguja (Zanzibar), East Africa.

Rose Mhando

Rose Muhando (born 1976 in Dumila village, Kilosa District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania) is an East African Swahili gospel artist.

Setnakhte

According to a genetic study in December 2012 published in the British Medical Journal, Setnakhte's son Ramesses III belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1a, a YDNA haplogroup mainly found in Sub-Saharan Africa with a possible source of origin in East Africa.

Shafique Virani

Shafique Virani has pursued several volunteer initiatives outside of his academic career, including founding a summer camp for Syrian youth in the Khawabi Mountains of Syria and participating in the Madrasa Resource Centre, an East African charity.

Sladeniaceae

Sladeniaceae is a family of flowering plants containing tree species found in sub-tropical to tropical environments in East Africa (Ficalhoa), Burma, Yunnan and Thailand (Sladenia).

Striped Nothobranch

The IUCN Red List lists Astatotilapia stappersii as its junior synonym, but this is a lapsus; apart from both being East African Acanthopterygii, the nothobranch ist neither similar nor closely related to the cichlid A. stappersii, which the IUCN in fact features in a separate entry under its old name Haplochromis stappersii.

Tipton Road

One match of the 1982 ICC Trophy was played at Tipton Road, but the game between East Africa and West Africa was abandoned without a result after East Africa had reached 53/2 from 25.1 overs.

Trepanging

Archeological remains of Makasar contact, including trepang processing plants from the 18th and 19th centuries, are still found at Australian locations such as Port Essington and Groote Eylandt, and the Makasar-planted tamarind trees (native to Madagascar and East Africa).

Yellow teardrop butterflyfish

The Yellow teardrop butterflyfish, Chaetodon interruptus, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the Indian ocean from East Africa (south to Port Alfred, South Africa), to Sumatra, Indonesia.


see also

Abu Nuwas

In East Africa's Swahili culture the Name of Abu Nuwas is quite popular as Abunuwasi.

Adrienne Kennaway

Those two 38-page picture books were written by William Lewis Radford and published by East Africa Publishing House of Nairobi in the East African Readers Library series; the Library of Congress Subject Heading is "English language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—African".

Asaria

From there a large portion of them migrated to East Africa - namely to Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda and to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Baganda music

Cooke, Peter (1990, 2006): "Play Amadinda: Xylophone music from Uganda (Instructional cassette or CD and book), produced in collaboration with Albert Ssempeke, (for use both in East Africa and in multi-cultural education in UK, USA etc.) (Edinburgh 1990 - Revised 2006), 29pp.

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi

Most traditional Hindu temples have stone interiors but this BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir uses indigenous timber from East Africa, such as camphor, mahogany, mvuli, Mt. Elgon teak and meru oak.

Chirundu Bridge

The bridges carry the Harare to Lusaka section of the Great North Road, which extends between South Africa and East Africa, and was once seen as part of a Cape to Cairo Road.

Dahalo language

Dahalo is one of very few outside southern Africa to have phonemic clicks (the others being Sandawe and Hadza in East Africa and Damin, a mutually unintelligible register of Lardil, spoken mainly on Mornington Island in Australia).

Dimbani

Dimbani's most notable feature is Kizimkazi Mosque, one of the oldest Islamic structures in East Africa.

Dooley Briscoe

He joined 1st Battalion of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment, and served in East Africa alongside fellow cricketers Bruce Mitchell and Ronnie Grieveson, fighting the Italians in Somaliland and Abyssinia.

East Africa Protectorate

In the carrying out of this policy of colonisation a dispute arose between Sir Charles Eliot, then Commissioner of British East Africa and Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary.

Economy of affection

The Economy of Affection is term introduced by Göran Hydén to describe a network of interactions, communications and support among certain peasant groups in parts of East Africa.

Elizabeth Jill Cowley

Her interests have included the tropical flora of East Africa and the genus Roscoea.

Emerging Capital Partners

Nairobi Java House, Kenya’s leading café and casual dining restaurant operator, marks the first private equity deal in the restaurant sector in East Africa.

Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid

In April 1969, fourteen autonomous nations from Central and East Africa gathered in Lusaka, Zambia, to argue about various African matters.

Göran Hydén

He has also worked as an academic at various universities in East Africa including the University of Dar es Salaam, University of Nairobi, and Makerere University.

Haplogroup B-M60

It was the ancestral haplogroup of not only modern Pygmies like the Baka and Mbuti, but also Hadzabe from Tanzania, who often have been considered, in large part because of some typological features of their language, to be a remnant of Khoisan people in East Africa.

Harold K. Schneider

Schneider focused on East Africa in his field work, and was especially influenced by his study of the Turu in Tanzania.

Henry Maitland Clark

Clark chaired the Conservative MPs' East Africa Committee in 1963-65 and was a part of the British Parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union from 1962 to 1965.

Institut français des relations internationales

The research centers are organized by regions (Europe, Russia, Newly Independent States, Asia, Middle East, Africa, the United States of America) and by themes (Security and strategic issues, Energy, Space, International Economy, Migrations, Health and Environmental issues), working in synergy and on a cross-divisional basis.

James Tupper

After high school, he lived on a coffee farm in East Africa and studied Swahili.

KCCA

Kampala Capital City Authority, the legal administrative entity responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda in East Africa

Kennell Jackson Jr.

Kennell Jackson (born on March 19, 1941, in Farmville, Virginia - died November 21, 2005) was an African American expert in East Africa and African American cultural history.

Kenya Harlequin F.C.

Nivea for Men - through Beiersdorf Marketing (East Africa) - sponsored the club in 2009 with KSh4 million.

Leah Marangu

She has served Kenya in various capacities including Commission for Higher Education (CHE), Egerton University Council, National Council of Science and Technology, Kenya Bureau of Standards, Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), Taskforce on Performance Contract among other bodies.

Leslie Van Gelder

As daughter of American Museum of Natural History curator Richard Van Gelder, she spent periods of her childhood involved in field work with him in East Africa and in the U.S. National Parks.

Loretta A. Preska

His trial and sentencing were conducted by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the same court; he was convicted of one count of conspiracy in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa and acquitted of the other 284 counts, and sentenced to life in prison.

Lovework

In the song East Africa, Teodros first speaks about his family and how he grew up, and then goes on to talk about the 2005 Ethiopian police massacres.

M. digitata

Montipora digitata, the finger coral, a stony coral species found in East Africa, the Indo-West Pacific, Kenya, Mozambique and Rodriguez

Microfranchising

Examples of microfranchises include BRAC's community promoters (in health, agriculture, legal services and other areas), Nuru Energy Entrepreneurs (East Africa and India), Village Phone Program by Grameenphone, CFW -The Healthstore Foundation (Kenya), VisionSpring (reading glasses, formerly Scojo Foundation), Drishtee ICT Kiosks (India), Reach India, Living Goods (Uganda), Healthkeepers (Ghana), and Fan Milk Limited (Ghana).

Musikari Kombo

Musikari Kombo hails from the larger Luhya community Bukusu sub tribe Balunda clan (descendants of Mulunda, believed to have migrated into Congo from East Africa).

Nazanine Moshiri

She is based at the channel's bureau in Nairobi in Kenya and is sometimes described as an East Africa Correspondent, although she has reported from numerous locations beyond this region.

Sangu people

They retreated westwards into Usafwa, finally forcing the Wasafwa to build a new Utengule near present day Mbeya which was to become one of East Africa's most elaborate Bomas (A massive stone fortress, supposedly the largest in East Africa, later deliberately destroyed by the Germans.) for Merere II and his dynasty.

Sarakan

These small portions of twig came from a specific shrub, Salvadora persica (the toothbrush tree), which is widespread throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Schnee

Heinrich Schnee - Governor of German East Africa during World War I,

Simone Cipriani

The Ethical Fashion Initiative harnesses the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty by connecting top designers, including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney, to marginalized artisans in East Africa, West Africa and Haiti.

Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet

On his death, his eldest son, Charles, became the 2nd Baronet Markham of Arusha, East Africa.

Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard, 6th Baronet

Barrett-Lennard's father, Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard (1880–1963), was a British soldier, who fought in the Boer War and in East Africa in the First World War, and became a judge in Malaya, then Johore and Kedah, and finally Chief Justice of Jamaica.

St Erth

Herbert Augustine Carter VC was the son of the vicar of St Erth and served in two campaigns in East Africa.

Stegastes fasciolatus

Its range extends from East Africa to Australia and the Kermadec Islands including Hawaii, Easter Island and the Ryukyu Islands.

Sukuma wiki

In the Congo, Tanzania and Kenya (East Africa), thinly sliced collard greens are the main accompaniments of a popular dish known as Ugali (also sometimes called sima, sembe or posho), a corn flour cake.

Taita Falcon

Reasons for its scarcity in East Africa possibly include competition for food and nest sites with the larger and more dominant Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and predation of young by the Peregrine Falcon, Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus) and owls.

Telecommunications in Seychelles

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand' Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

The Afghan

A wayward US missile that was launched as part of a strike in retaliation for the 1998 East Africa bombings hits a slope in the Tora Bora, resulting in a landslide that buries Khan's village and his entire family; he swears revenge against the US, joining the Taliban in the process.

Theretra capensis

It is known from woodland and open habitats from the Cape to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique and East Africa.

Tiv people

The Tiv are the best known example from West Africa, as documented by Laura Bohannan (1952) and by Paul J. Bohannan and Laura Bohannan (1953); in East Africa the best known example is the Nuer, documented by E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1940).

Uganda Scheme

The African land was described as an "ante-chamber to the Holy Land" and a Nachtasyl (temporary night shelter), but other groups felt that accepting the offer would make it more difficult to establish a Jewish state in Ottoman Palestine, and also that the Jewish nation would not be able to claim itself as native to that land, since there were no historic or culture links between the Hebrews and East Africa.

Yaroslav Trofimov

He has been a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since 1999, covering the Middle East, Africa and, recently South and Southeast Asia.