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East Africa A Mixed Inheritance

East Africa A Mixed Inheritance. By: Alexandra Wiener, Sam Grosso, Ali Crofts, Annabel Burchill. Shared Cultural Characteristics:. The value of cattle Environment is suitable Cattle are important to the lifestyle Language (Bantu or Nilotic) All languages belong to one or the other

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East Africa A Mixed Inheritance

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  1. East Africa A Mixed Inheritance By: Alexandra Wiener, Sam Grosso, Ali Crofts, Annabel Burchill

  2. Shared Cultural Characteristics: • The value of cattle • Environment is suitable • Cattle are important to the lifestyle • Language (Bantu or Nilotic) • All languages belong to one or the other • Influenced by Arab Islamic culture • Many countries all over East Africa

  3. Unique Cultural Characteristics: • Religion • Islamic rule along the coast of East Afrca • Many Muslims in North-East Africa • Interior of East Africa is Christian • Native Religions widely practiced as well • Language • Hundred of languages • Most common is Swahili • Islands of East Africa do not speak Swahili

  4. The Horn (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) • Influenced by outside powers • Britain & France (Red Sea) • Suez Canal (1869) • Italy (Eritrea and southeast Somalia) • Battle of Adowa • Italy (occupied Ethiopia) • Politically Alienated • Refugees fleeing armed conflict • Authoritarian Regimes (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan) • Wars  droughts, famines, staration • Ethiopia • Christian civilization

  5. East African Proper(Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) • Rwanda and Burundi • German control then Belgian • Fighting between tribes • Kenya and Uganda • Taken over by British • EAC (East African Community) • Agreements • East African Meditation Agreement (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) • Preferential Trade Area • Permanent Tripartite

  6. The Indian Ocean Islands(Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles) • Influences • Asia, mainland Africa and Europe • All influences by France • Formed Indian Ocean Commission • Link with South Africa

  7. Environmental Characteristics: • Tropical and temperate savanna • Tropical rainforest • Great Rift Valley • Very Dry (lower-lying lands of northern Kenya and Greater Somalia are )

  8. Positive Attributes: • Good cattle lands • Great lakes (Albert, Tanganyika, Malawi, Victoria) • Costal Region (ideal for trade)

  9. Challenging Attributes: • Unreliable rainfall • Constant fear of drought • Famine • War and civil unrest • No regional community (The Horn)

  10. Resources: • Cattle • Iron • Oil • Copper • Gold • Uranium (Somalia) • Diamonds (Tanzania) • Steel

  11. Ethnic Groups: • Samburo • Maasai • Kikuyu (Kenya) • Afar

  12. Colonial Influences and Treatment of Indigenous People: • Four Islands (French and Asia) • Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, part of Somalia (British) • Somalia and Eritrea (Italy) • Ethiopia (Italy for short period) – then independent • British control  forced to speak English • Italian cotrol  forced to speak Italian • Forced their own culture on the natives

  13. Leaders and Their Impact: • 1977 • Nyerere (Tanzania) • Jomo Kenyena (Kenya) • Idi Amin (Uganda) • 1993 • Daniel Mkapa (Tanzania) • Daniel Arap Moi (Kenya) • Museveni (Uganda)

  14. What Does the Title Mean?“A Mixed Inheritance” • East Africa has a wide range of areas in which its been influenced by.

  15. Two Questions For the Class: • Name three ways in which Eastern-Africa is similar to either Northern, Central of Western Africa. Explain. • Do you believe that the colonizers of each of the Eastern-African countries has had a lasting affect on the country? Explain.

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