1. East Africa Overview History, Culture, Context

2. Geography Impact of landscape and climate

3. 5000MILES5000MILES 4 6 0 0 M I L E S Comparative Perspective

4. Geography Globalization & Diversity: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, Wyckoff

5. Geography

6. http://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift/figure1.jpg Geology

7. More Geology

8. Great Rift Valley 3,000 miles long

9. Inter-Tropical Front ~ formerly called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/africa-itcz/index.html

10. African Weather

11. Globalization & Diversity: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, Wyckoff 11 Climate Map of Sub-Saharan Africa

12. Satellite View

13. Weather and geography… Weather Hazards: Current weather hazards: September 01-07, 2011Current weather hazards: September 01-07, 2011

14. …impact humans.. Near Term Outlook: Estimated food security conditions, 3rd Quarter 2011 (August-September 2011)

15. Culture and History The Human Experience in East Africa

16. Geography and Climate: Farming systems

17. … Livelihoods Importance of own crops as a source of food

18. Population densities 2010 est. 2015 est.

19. Languages

21. Bantu Migrations

22. Themes in political history Local social, cultural and political systems ◦Diversity Movements around region ◦Trade ◦Cultivators and Pastoralists ◦Migrations Trade and Globalization beyond the continent ◦Indian Ocean and Asia ◦Arabian Peninsula ◦Europe Religion Colonialism – different types ◦Settler ◦Protectorate ◦Indirect Rule Independence struggles

23. Themes in more recent political history Nation building Socialism, Ujamaa, Harambee Non-aligned movement Development Structural adjustment Civil War Post-conflict transitions Authoritarianism Democracy and rule of law More globalization and exchange Asia (esp. China) Labor, migration Class, gender, ethnicity, age Environment Climate change Food security Water Global War on Terror Regional conflict and cooperation FDI, GDP growth Religion… etc…

24. Kampala, Uganda

25. Bus Station, Kampala

26. Nairobi, Kenya

27. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

28. Dodoma: Parliament Building