The beloved Virika Cathedral—an architectural and historical landmark that had stood for nearly six decades—collapsed, ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

An exhibition that tells the stories of African people who lived in the East End of London during the time of the ...

East African ministers responsible for arts and culture have reached what many are describing as an historic agreement to ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics ... appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which ...

In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never subject to one wide, sweeping Muslim takeover. Islam came to the East African coast in many waves and at different times. There is no single date ...

By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace of our species. But recently some researchers have put forward a different history: Homo sapiens ...

Reid – professor of African history at the University of Oxford ... While the notional focus of the book is the “road” from the east African coast to the lakes of east-central Africa ...

Established in 1909 to promote the study and conservation of nature in eastern Africa, Nature Kenya – the East Africa Natural History Society – is Africa’s oldest environmental society. Our mission is ...