Southeast Africa

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.

Bantu expansion

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

Swahili coast

Urewe

Madagascar

Kitara and Bunyoro

Lake Plateau states and empires

Buganda

Rwanda

Burundi

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.