Southeast Africa

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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.{{cite news |last=Zimmer |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Zimmer |title=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. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/science/human-ancestor-skull-computer.html |date=10 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=10 September 2019 }}{{cite journal |last1=Mounier |first1=Aurélien |last2=Lahr |first2=Marta |title=Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species |journal=Nature Communications |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=3406 |doi=10.1038/s41467-019-11213-w |pmid=31506422 |pmc=6736881 |year=2019 |bibcode=2019NatCo..10.3406M }}

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

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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.{{cite book |last=Selous |first=F. C. |author-link=Frederick Selous |title=Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa |chapter=XXV |page=445 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdWemHZX4BQC |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-03116-5 |date=2011}}

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{{See also|Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa|Southeast Africans in the United States}}

People include the San people. The Swahili language is spoken, both as an official language and lingua franca, by millions of people.Irele 2010

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Lake Malawi{{cite journal |author=Douglas, John |title=Malawi: The Lake of Stars |journal=Travel Africa |issue=4 |url=http://www.travelafricamag.com/content/view/231/56/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114161419/http://www.travelafricamag.com/content/view/231/56/ |date=Summer 1998 |access-date=22 August 2008 |archive-date=14 January 2009 }}{{cite news |work=Fishbase.org |title=Freshwater Fish Species in Lake Malawi (Nyasa) [Southeast Africa] |publisher=Mongabay |url=http://fish.mongabay.com/data/ecosystems/Lake%20Malawi.htm |date=15 November 2001 |access-date=9 December 2016}} and Limpopo River{{citation |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Limpopo River |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Limpopo-River |access-date=29 April 2018}} are located in Southeast Africa.

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Fauna includes the cheetah, leopard, lion,{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=D. |title=Lion |chapter=Introduction |pages=1–21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65lK7UIVRfIC |publisher=Reaktion Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-86189-735-0 |date=2010}} Nile crocodile, hyena, Lichtenstein's hartebeest and white rhinoceros.

• Mozambique Channel
• Sub-Saharan Africa

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• [http://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/2017/11/11/africa-southeastern-bantu-dna-ethnicity/ Africa Southeastern Bantu DNA Ethnicity]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180428035401/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/pepper-swahili-speaking-robot-breaks-down-language-barriers-african-art-exhibit-180968902/ The Smithsonian Is Using a Swahili-Speaking Robot to Break Down Language]
• [https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=12246 Fires in Southeast Africa and Madagascar] (including Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park

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