Resources for the study of East Africa as a whole

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• The history in general of East Africa as a whole

Map of East Africa showing tectonic plates

USGS, 5 May 1999. The Afar Triangle (shaded, center)—a so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along the East African Rift Zone.