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The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift . They include Lake Victoria , the second largest fresh water lake in the ___MASK77___ by area , and Lake Tanganyika , the ___MASK77___ ' s second largest freshwater lake by volume and depth . Collectively , they contain 31 , 000 km ( 7400 cu mi ) of water , which is more than either Lake Baikal or the North American Great Lakes , and constitutes about 25 % of the planet ' s unfrozen surface fresh water . Kinyarwanda , also known as ___MASK10___ ( Ruanda ) or Rwandan , or in ___MASK59___ as Fumbira , is the official language of ___MASK10___ and a dialect of the ___MASK10___ - Rundi language spoken by 12 million people in ___MASK10___ , Eastern Congo and adjacent parts of southern ___MASK59___ . ( The Kirundi dialect is the official language of neighboring Burundi .) Kinyarwanda is one of the three official languages of ___MASK10___ ( along with English and French ), and is spoken by almost all of the native population . This contrasts with most modern African states , whose borders were drawn by colonial powers and did not correspond to ethnic boundaries or pre - colonial kingdoms . The Nile ( " en - Nl ", " an - Nl " " P ( h ) iaro "; Ancient Egyptian : "  ' p " and " Iteru "; Biblical Hebrew :  , " Ha - Ye ' or ") is a major north - flowing river in northeastern Africa . It is generally regarded as the longest river in the ___MASK77___ , however other conflicting sources cite a 2007 study that gave the title to the Amazon River in South America . The Nile , which is 6 , 853 km ( 4 , 258 miles ) long , is an " international " river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries , namely , ___MASK75___ , ___MASK59___ , Rwanda , Burundi , Congo - Kinshasa , Kenya , Ethiopia , Eritrea , South Sudan , Sudan and Egypt . In particular , the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan . The Ganda language , Luganda (" Oluganda " ), is one of the major languages in ___MASK59___ , spoken by five million Baganda and other people principally in Southern ___MASK59___ , including the capital Kampala . It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger  Congo language family . Typologically , it is a highly agglutinating language with subject  verb  object word order and nominative  accusative morphosyntactic alignment . The Bantu languages , technically the Narrow Bantu languages ( as opposed to " Wide Bantu ", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages ), constitute a traditional branch of the ___MASK33___  Congo languages . There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility , though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear , and " Ethnologue " counts 535 languages . Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present - day ___MASK20___ , that is , in the regions commonly known as Central Africa , Southeast Africa , and ___MASK50___ . Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families ( see map ). Lake Victoria (' in Luo ; ' in Luganda ; "" in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages ) is one of the African Great Lakes . The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke , the first Briton to document it . Speke accomplished this in 1858 , while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River . Yuweh Island lies about 3 km south east of Buvuma Island in Lake Victoria . It covers an area of 2sq kilometers . Victoria ( Alexandrina Victoria ; 24 May 1819  22 January 1901 ) was Queen of the ___MASK62___ from 20 June 1837 until her death . From 1 May 1876 , she adopted the additional title of Empress of India .