East Africa and its Amazing Geography

In this episode of FactSpark, we are going to the eastern tip of the African continent and explore 5 astonishing geographical features of this region.

Along this journey through the eastern coast of Africa, we will take a look at the East African Rift System, the African Great Lakes, crazy precipitation patters in the center of East Africa, The Big 5 game of Africa and finally, the newest country on the world Stage, South Sudan.
For further readings on any of the topics mentioned in the Video, check out the sources below.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:22 East African Rift
1:20 African Great Lakes
2:20 Precipitation Patterns
3:05 Big 5 Game
4:50 South Sudan

Sources:
[1] – 00:31 - https://www.britannica.com/place/East...
[2] – 00:47 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rift
[3] – 01:03 - https://theconversation.com/africa-is...
[4] - 01:54 - https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/inf...
[5] – 02:04 - https://eos.org/articles/dire-and-dri....
[6] – 02:36 – Climate Data supplied by “Deutscher Wetterdienst” (https://www.dwd.de/DE/Home/home_node....)
[7] – 04:03 - https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trendi...
[8] – 04:27 - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
[9] – 05:10 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_...
[10] – 05:19 - https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/
[11] – 05:33 - https://wid.world/country/south-sudan/

Image sources:
Africa Continent Map by Vemaps.com
01:25 – Images of the African great lakes:
Lake Malawi by https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/...
Lake Tanganyika by  Twitter: emmanuelkagongo
Lake Victoria by https://www.zola.com/registry/collect...
01:37 - Graphs for Uganda and Malawi: https://knoema.com/atlas/Uganda/topic...
https://knoema.com/atlas/Malawi/topic...
Sudan Vectors:
https://freevectormaps.com/sudan/SD-E...
https://freevectormaps.com/south-suda...
02:04 - Bathymetry of Lake Victoria - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
05:54 - Portrait of South Sudanese Leaders:
Lam Akol: Twitter: @AkolLam
Salva Kiir Mayardit by Jenny Rockett - [email protected]
06:12 – SWENN: http://sswen.org/

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