EAST AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY

                                                             Eastern Africa: Geography,   Ethnography and Physical Activity It is important to consider the historical background, geographical features, ethnic origins and tribes of eastern Africa as a prelude to a later discussion on the social and cultural history of Tanzania. Before the colonialists partitioned Africa in the 1880s, present-day Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, which now geographically and politically form an entity called East Africa, were part of a larger area of eastern Africa. The term ‘eastern Africa’ will be used to refer to this area, except when referring to the present in which case the term will be East Africa. Eastern Africa: Historical Background Some of the earliest known written records of eastern Africa variously referred to its coasts as Azania, Po-p...