East Africa
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- proper noun
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África oriental
- Locally produced ceramics are the mainstay of archaeological research in East Africa.
- East Africa lakes
- people of East Africa
And eventually ended up as a director for East Africa in Nairobi.
- And eventually ended up as a director for East Africa in Nairobi.
- Here we shall learn about the Europeans who came to East Africa.
- So going back to our prehistoric ancestors on the savannahs of East Africa, they were living in small groups.
- So they're a hunter gatherer tribe who live in East Africa on the border between Tanzania and Kenya.
- But in Africa, they East Africa, I think mostly they they caught.
- And you know, that's, I mean, look at East Africa.
- For the Italian control of East Africa.
- Yeah, I was for a short time in in East Africa and were both parties could speak English.
- So I've worked in East Africa, Ukraine and now West Africa have come will travel.
Examples
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Since the advent of colonialism in East Africa, the Maasai people have been progressively dispossessed of their communally held land.
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So they're a hunter gatherer tribe who live in East Africa on the border between Tanzania and Kenya.
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Doctor, we spent three years in East Africa.
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These are women and girls in East Africa carrying water.
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That's because we're in East Africa.
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There's been a discovery in East Africa.
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In the tiny new nation of Eritrea, East Africa, an experiment in government is under way.
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The dire emergency in East Africa, the drought there exacerbating the hunger crisis.
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The Maasai and Battini tribal peoples in East Africa use additives that lower cholesterol.
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Hunger has swept East Africa this year, spurred by poor rains and rising food prices.
Synonyms
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A very large continent south of Europe between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward geographic composition: 'east' (the eastern part) + 'Africa' (the continent) yields 'the eastern region of Africa', a meaning directly inferable from its parts. This is a common cross-linguistic place-naming pattern and contains no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
East Africa is a simple place name made from east and Africa, showing the side of the continent where the sun rises over the ocean. So East Africa today means the 'eastern region' of Africa, including countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.