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Also known as: East Africa
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D. Anthony Low
Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge. Author of Buganda in Modern History.
D. Anthony Low,
Harold G. Marcus
Distinguished Professor of History and African Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Author of A History of Ethiopia and others.
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eastern Africa, part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Eastern Africa consists largely of plateaus and has most of the highest elevations in the continent. The two most striking highlands are in Ethiopia and Kenya, respectively, where large areas reach elevations of 6,500 to 10,000 feet (2,000 to 3,000 metres). Twin parallel rift valleys that are part of the East African Rift System run through the region. The Eastern, or Great, Rift Valley extends from the ...(100 of 13851 words)

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