Lake Victoria is so massive that it is shared by three countries, has a larger surface area than many countries, and is home ...

[The Nile river] comes from a very huge lake of the [African] lands," the account reads. That description sounds very much like Murchison Falls, a gorge between Lake Victoria (the source of the ...

Lake Victoria was first documented by British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1858 during his quest to find the source of the Nile River. Believing he had discovered its main source, he named it ...

A thriving east African trade in the swim bladder has taken hold of the local communities on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is threatening to make the Nile Perch locally extinct. The fish is a ...