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The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, (usually pronounced yoo-GAN-duh ... Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses ...

Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...

28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...

(also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the African Great Lakes. It ... Lake Victoria plays a vital role in supporting the millions of people ...

Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the ... *East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; * Horn of Africa ...

The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the ... the three largest lakes have a host of middle-sized and small lakes ...

Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... When he assumed power in 1971, Uganda had experienced a series of ...

Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962. When Rwanda gained ...

13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...

The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...

city, industrial center, and major port of Tanzania. Its name comes from ... Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but has ...

, located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...

was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, serving from December ... 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya after ...

an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...

The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...

250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... Bride price, also known as bride wealth, is an amount of money, property ...

Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/; locally [ˈkɛɲa]), officially the Republic of ... Kenya's location on the eastern coast of Africa and central highlands ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...

1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002 ... he claimed, a distinctive African tradition of leadership. He claimed to be ...

The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...

islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...

Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...

A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population ... and social development. In spite of the much greater technological ...

compact automobiles, a full range of motorcycles, All-Terrain Vehicles ... Suzuki, begun in 1909 as a manufacturer of wooden looms, has been ...

with rhythm. In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences, encouraging ... in African Music. African dance has a unity of aesthetic and logic that is ...

Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...

or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, was fought between ... colonial forces and agreed a quick handover of power for the nationalistic ...

Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues. He ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...

; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim ... 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt and ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...

The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...

Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...

, abbreviated as IR, refers to a Department of the Government of India, under ... India's rail transport, constitutes one of the largest and busiest rail ...

the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...