<P> Great Britain seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1795, ostensibly to prevent it from falling into the hands of the French but also to use Cape Town in particular as a stop on the route to Australia and India . It was later returned to the Dutch in 1803, but soon afterwards the Dutch East India Company declared bankruptcy, and the British annexed the Cape Colony in 1806 . </P> <P> The Zulu Kingdom was a Southern African tribal state in what is now KwaZulu - Natal in southeastern South Africa . The small kingdom gained world fame during and after the Anglo - Zulu War . </P> <P> During the 1950s and early 1960s, most Sub-Saharan African nations achieved independence from colonial rule . </P> <P> According to the theory of recent African origin of modern humans, the mainstream position held within the scientific community, all humans originate from either Southeast Africa or the Horn of Africa . During the first millennium CE, Nilotic and Bantu - speaking peoples moved into the region, and the latter now account for three - quarters of Kenya's population . </P>

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