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Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.

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Was Kenya once known as rhodesia?

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Who was the first Europeans to settlers?

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