Southeast Africa Explained

Southeast Africa,^{[1] [2]} or Southeastern Africa,^[3] is an African region that is intermediate between East Africa and Southern Africa.^[4] It comprises the countries Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,^[5] Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda,^[6] Zambia and Zimbabwe^[7] in the mainland, with the island-nations of Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, and Seychelles also included.^[5]

History

Prehistory

East and southern Africa are among the earliest regions where modern humans (Homo sapiens) and their predecessors are believed to have lived. In September 2019, scientists reported the computerized determination, based on 260 CT scans, of a virtual skull shape of the last common human ancestor to modern humans/H. sapiens, representative of the earliest modern humans, and suggested that modern humans arose between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago through a merging of populations in South and East Africa.^{[8] [9]}

Bantu expansion

Bantu-speakers traversed from Central Africa into Southeast Africa approximately 3,000 years ago.^[5]

Madagascar

See main article: History of Madagascar.

Lake Plateau states and empires

See main article: History of Buganda.

Buganda

See main article: History of Buganda.

Maravi

See main article: Maravi.

Modern history

In the 19th and 20th centuries, David Livingstone and Frederick Courtney Selous visited Southeast Africa. The latter wrote down his experiences in the book Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.^[10]

Demographics and languages

See also: Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa and Southeast Africans in the United States. People include the San people.^[3] The Swahili language is spoken, both as an official language and lingua franca, by millions of people.^[11]

Culture

Film industry

Geography

Lake Malawi^{[12] [13]} and Limpopo River are located in Southeast Africa.

Climate

Natural Disasters

Wildlife

Fauna^[10] includes the cheetah, leopard, lion,^[14] Nile crocodile, hyena, Lichtenstein's hartebeest and white rhinoceros.

See also

• Mozambique Channel
• Sub-Saharan Africa

External links

• Africa Southeastern Bantu DNA Ethnicity
• The Smithsonian Is Using a Swahili-Speaking Robot to Break Down Language
• Fires in Southeast Africa and Madagascar (including Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park

Notes and References

1. Book: Axworthy, Mary . Sowell . Teri L. . Asking for Eyes: The Visual Voice of Southeast Africa . . 2004 . 0-937097-01-2.
2. Book: Wieschhoff, H. A. . The Zimbabwe-Monomotapa Culture in Southeast Africa . Literary Licensing L. L. C. . 2013 . 978-1-4940-0993-9.
3. Schlebusch, C. M. . Prins, F. . Lombard, M. . Jakobsson, M. . Soodyall, H. . The disappearing San of southeastern Africa and their genetic affinities. . Human Genetics . 135 . 12 . 1365–1373 . 27651137 . 5065584 . 10.1007/s00439-016-1729-8 . 2016 .
4. Book: Klopper, S. . Conru, K. . Nel, K. . The Art of Southeast Africa: From the Conru Collection . . 2002 . 88-7439-001-7.
5. Web site: Ancestry.com . Bantu Ethnicity in South East Africa: From Kenya to the Southern Tip of Africa . 29 April 2018.
6. Web site: Tracing African Roots . Tracing African Roots: Exploring the Ethnic Origins of the Afro-Diaspora . 31 January 2016 . 29 April 2018.
7. Web site: Fry . Kathie . Southeast African Countries . Do It in Africa . 19 April 2018.
8. News: Zimmer . Carl . Carl Zimmer . Scientists Find the Skull of Humanity's Ancestor — on a Computer – By comparing fossils and CT scans, researchers say they have reconstructed the skull of the last common forebear of modern humans. . 10 September 2019 . . 10 September 2019 .
9. Mounier . Aurélien . Lahr . Marta . Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species . . 10 . 1 . 3406 . 10.1038/s41467-019-11213-w . 31506422 . 6736881 . 2019 . 2019NatCo..10.3406M .
10. Book: Selous, F. C. . Frederick Selous . Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa . XXV . 445 . New York . . 978-1-108-03116-5 . 2011.
11. Irele 2010
12. Douglas, John . Malawi: The Lake of Stars . Travel Africa . 4 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090114161419/http://www.travelafricamag.com/content/view/231/56/ . Summer 1998 . 22 August 2008 . 14 January 2009 .
13. News: Fishbase.org . Freshwater Fish Species in Lake Malawi (Nyasa) [Southeast Africa] ]. . 15 November 2001 . 9 December 2016.
14. Book: Jackson, D. . Lion . Introduction . 1–21 . . London . 978-1-86189-735-0 . 2010.