Lake Victoria is more than just a body of water—it is the lifeblood of East Africa, sustaining over 47 million people across five countries. With its shores spanning Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and ...

Emily J. Beverly receives funding from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and the Leakey Foundation. Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. It might be surprising to learn that, in a lake as large as Victoria, a single fish could shape so much of East Africa’s history, culture and, now, ...

Unusually high rainfall has caused 'backflow' into Africa's largest lake, displacing communities and spurring calls for greater regional effort to manage water BUDALANGI, Kenya, Aug 19 (Thomson ...