The unique geography and apparent suitability for farming made East Africa a target for European exploration, exploitation and colonialization in the nineteenth century. Djibouti, as well as the Puntland and Somaliland regions of Somalia, have also seen relative stability. Doing Business in West Africa . Most multiregionalists still view Africa as a major wellspring of human genetic diversity, but allow a much greater role for hybridization.[42][43]. Zanzibar is now a semi-autonomous state in a union with the mainland which is collectively and commonly referred to as Tanzania. ECHOcommunity is a membership community that provides access to nearly all of ECHO’s resources online, as well as communications tools to help development workers connect with each other. Italy gained control of various parts of Somalia in the 1880s. Out of the entire African nations, there are 16 nations that make up the West African countries.Geographically, West Africa is well distinguished from other parts of Africa. [71][72][73], South Sudan peacefully seceded from Sudan in 2011, six and a half years after a peace agreement ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. The Republic of Venice had gained control over much of the trade routes between Europe and Asia. The northern portion of western Africa is composed of a broad band of semiarid terrain, called the western Sudan, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to the area of Lake Chad on the east, a distance of about 2,500 miles (4,000 km). 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There are movies that have depicted East Africa in various forms. This in turn challenged the older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the spice trade routes which utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and camel caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean. Indo-European languages, such as English, French and Portuguese, remain important in higher institutions in some parts of the larger region. [45] The old kingdom's first mention dates to the 25th century BC. East; Indian Ocean; North; Southern Africa; West » Benin » Burkina Faso » Côte d'Ivoire » Gambia » Ghana » Guinea » Guinea-Bissau » Liberia » Mali » Mauritania » Niger » Nigeria » Senegal » Sierra Leone » Togo The red stood for the English, blue stood for the French, and the beige stood for Germany during the period of colonialism. At Unilever we meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. This quiz uses the United Nations definition of what constitutes Western Africa. The construction of Fort Jesus in Mombasa in 1593 was meant to solidify Portuguese hegemony in the region, but their influence was clipped by the British, Dutch and Omani Arab incursions into the Great Lakes region during the 17th century. It has official status in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi have each faced instability and ethnic conflict since independence, most notably the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1993 Burundi Genocide and subsequent Burundi Civil War. Water Africa & East Africa Building and Construction, Kigali, Rwanda. Princeton, Princeton University Press. sapiens, representative of the earliest Homo sapiens, and suggested that Homo sapiens arose between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago through a merging of populations in South and East Africa. [25][26], According to the theory of the recent African origin of modern humans, the predominantly held belief among most archaeologists, East Africa is the area where anatomically modern humans first appeared. [50], After their movements from their original homeland in West Africa, Bantus also encountered in central east Africa peoples of Cushitic origin. Omani Arab colonization of the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign scrutiny and domination than was experienced during the Portuguese period. indicates that the link will open in …