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

12. Ethnic Groups:
Samburo
Maasai
Kikuyu (Kenya)
Afar

13. 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

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

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

17. 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.