@@infamouskwame Highest Mountains, Largest Lakes, Biggest Islands, Longest valleys & Longest river are all in East Africa. The greatest region of Africa indeed.
Quite clearly Nankya Juliet you were not an "A" student in Geography, as you cannot distinguish what is a country and what is a region. East Africa is NOT a country but a region, time for you to go back to school.
Malawi is in southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south and southwest. Malawi spans over 118,484 km2.
Mulanje Mountain is ‘probably’ the best mountain in the world. But it’s not nearly as high as these. Imagine this connected area (and if you can’t, look it up on a map): Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. Mulanje Mountain is the highest mountain in that area. But there are many mountains higher than Mulanje north (and south) of this area I have described.
Okay,,,from number 8 to 3 that's the same mountain called mountains of the moon or Rwenzori mountain,,,this stuff of Europeans naming our places their names has to stop yesterday,,,I come from the slopes of the mountain in a small town called fortportal and I will tell u my ancestors saw that mountain before the European s BUT,,,,,
Mt. Kilimanjaro was initially supposed to be within Kenyan territory but was given to Tanzania as a peace offering between the Queen of England - who was overseeing the British East African and the German forces who had taken over Tanzania at the time.
I think there is no any wrong with him ..cause we need to start with the word mount. Doesn't matter the translation in local language If you say Kilimanjaro alone tastes nothing
There are several examples of the type. "Sahara" means "desert". Talking about the "Sahara Desert" is the same duplication. I have met a name of a lake in Finland that was filtered through three languages. Every surveyor that came around added the word for "lake" in his language until it sounded Lake, Lake, Lake $$$.
Dalton Harmon, one of the problems in the names given, is about who is the powerhouse at the time. Hence, we are yet to find any Black African races that dominated Europe. It can be contested that the Egyptians are black but historically that is still debatable. Particularly European names are given to areas of Conquest, furthermore, in terms of those powerhouses or countries, they made claims by the names they promulgated by formulating historical records. We know that in northern regions of Africa like Mali, in the clay city of Timbouctou (a Toureg name) (Timbuktu) ancient libraries of books and journals abound with a host of African names and records detailing the past history. Possibly many of these records were not fully understood so the new Colonial master and conquerors simply "EURONISED" whatever suited them for simplicity and hence time and history dictated those names to remain into present-day time.
The same Highlands are the reason why E Africa is the only arid region that lies along the equator, as the mountains cause rainshadows that become both hot and cold deserts, the snows from the mountains feed most rivers in E Africa. Also this makes E Africa get temperate forests, just like European and North American forests, instead of Tropical rain Forests
Well, if Africans had bothered to give the peaks names earlier that might not have happened. But they didn’t. The vast majority of names in Africa are African.
Once again this program gives the viewers disinformation. Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya are NOT mountains, but Volcanoes, active or inactive. Mountains geographically are formed totally different to how volcanoes are formed. The activities of a volcano and or a mountain or range come into the topography of an area very very differently. Time for the producers of this program to go back to school and revise Africa's tallest mountains and mountain ranges. The name that's given to Kilimanjaro and Kenya as Mount does not mean they are mountains. The word mount simply means: A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land.
@@stephenkatua9395 You need to go back to school buddy and understand how mountains and volcanoes are formed. Quite frankly you just dont know, that is so evidently clear. Neither Kilimanjaro or Kenya are mountains, but Volcanoes.
...about everything being or supposed to be in Kenya: ...Everything in East Africa was presumably supposed to be in Kenya to satisfy the interests of the white Kenyans; the white settlers. The eastern boundary of Uganda was initially in the area of the present day town of Naivasha in Kenya. They kept moving the Kenya western frontier westward so the settlers could have more land and settle their issues from Nairobi other than Kampala. The last Eastern Ugandan land was given to Kenya in 1922 as a birthday gift to Queen Victoria!! They re-drew the boundary to include Lake Victoria!! When Amin talked of this history during his time, the then president Kenyatta senior, nearly went to war with Amin. The famous fact about all this is; Barack Obama 's grandfather was born in then Uganda. His dad was born in Kenya - of course after the famous land grab. Go figure.