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unusual facts about Eastern Africa



Kate Bertram

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

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.

Railroad Tycoon 3

Rhodes Unfinished: Eastern Africa, 1902–33 Mission: Connect the cities on the Indian Ocean coast to the inland cities


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Afrocarpus gracilior

It is an important timber tree in eastern Africa, used for building construction, panelling, flooring and furniture.

Black-veined White

Dixeia doxo, a butterfly endemic to central and eastern Africa

David Mbiyu

David's print production (graphic design work includes West Africa magazine, Africa Week magazine and Eastern Africa magazine.

Green mamba

Eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps), an arboreal snake found in the east of Southern Africa and much of Eastern Africa

Leo von Caprivi

The treaty also gave Germany the Caprivi Strip, which was added to German South West Africa, thus linking that territory with the Zambezi River, which he had hoped to use for trade and communications with eastern Africa (the river proved to be unnavigable).

Maasai people

In Eastern Africa, uncircumcised women, even those highly educated members of parliament like Linah Kilimo, can be accused of not being mature enough to be taken seriously.

Neville Chittick

In 1961, Chittick was appointed the first Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi.

Paintbrush lily

Scadoxus puniceus, an amarillid bulbous (bulbed) plant native to southern and eastern Africa

Savage Beauty

Inspired by the headlines and news stories from eastern Africa, retropreneur Ed Catto, and his Captain Action partner, Joe Ahearn recruited longtime writer of The Phantom, Mike Bullock.

Steinbok

Steenbok or steinbok, a small antelope of southern and eastern Africa

Wild mango

Cordyla africana, a large tree native to eastern Africa, in the Fabaceae family

Xymalos

Xymalos is an Afromontane endemic, and can be found from 900–2700 meters elevation in the highlands of Eastern Africa from Sudan to South Africa, as well as on Mount Cameroon and Bioko in west-central Africa.