- African Great Lakes, Burundi, Central, Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Mwanza, Niassa Reserve, Rift Valley, Rwanda, Tanzania, The Lakeshore, Uganda, Zambia

The African Great Lakes are a little-known and often misunderstood natural feature. These lakes are not connected, for the most part, and don’t even share the same drainage basin. What they do share is a unique place in the history…

Lake Victoria — also known as Victoria Nyanza, Ukerewe, and Nalubaale — rakes in the superlatives: it is the largest lake on the African continent by surface area, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater…