East Africa Public-Domain Corpora
Collection
Digitized public-domain sources: history, law, health, agriculture, maps, language. Terra preta for agents — soil that compounds with use. • 8 items • Updated
Datasets:
id string | category string | condition string | swahili_term string | endemic_zones string | historical_prevalence string | traditional_management string | altitude_protection string | source string | tags list | tsetse_habitat string | coordination_implication string | risk_factors string | historical_documentation string | prevention string | transmission string | historical_outbreaks string | plant string | scientific_name string | swahili_name string | documented_uses string | plant_parts string | note string | statistic_type string | region string | period string | estimated_life_expectancy_years int64 | primary_mortality_causes list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HLT001 | disease | Malaria | homa ya malaria / homa kali | Coastal lowlands, lake basins, river valleys below 1800m altitude | Major cause of mortality in colonial records 1895-1920; estimated 50%+ of fever cases | Quinine from Cinchona bark (introduced 1850s); artemisia plants locally | Above 2000m (highlands): very low malaria transmission. Key coordination fact. | East Africa Medical Reports 1900-1915 (PD); Ross, Malaria & Mosquitoes 1910 (PD) | [
"malaria",
"endemic",
"altitude",
"prevention",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
HLT002 | disease | Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosomiasis) | ugonjwa wa malale | Tsetse fly belts: Lake Victoria basin, river valleys, woodland areas | Major epidemic 1900-1910: 200,000+ deaths around Lake Victoria | null | null | Bruce, Report on the Tsetse Fly Disease (1895, PD); Uganda Sleeping Sickness Commission 1906 (PD) | [
"sleeping-sickness",
"tsetse",
"livestock",
"lake-victoria",
"historical"
] | Dense riverside vegetation, woodland-grassland boundaries | Livestock movement restrictions historically; affected settlement patterns | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
HLT003 | nutrition | Kwashiorkor / protein-energy malnutrition | utapiamlo | null | null | null | null | Kenya Medical Department Reports 1920s (PD); Williams, Archives of Disease in Childhood 1933 (PD) | [
"nutrition",
"malnutrition",
"children",
"drought",
"food-security"
] | null | null | Drought years, post-weaning (age 1-3), monotonous starchy diet | First clinically described in Gold Coast 1933 (Williams); present earlier in EA records | Dietary diversity; legume integration; moringa supplementation | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
HLT004 | water | Cholera / typhoid (waterborne disease) | kipindupindu (cholera) | null | null | null | null | East Africa Medical Reports 1900-1920 (PD); Koch, Report on Cholera in Africa 1902 (PD) | [
"waterborne",
"cholera",
"sanitation",
"water",
"coordination"
] | null | Water source mapping and protection is primary public health intervention | null | null | Boiling water; separation of water sources from waste | Contaminated water; flood events; poor sanitation | Major outbreaks following drought-flood cycles; ports and trade routes primary vectors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
HLT005 | traditional_medicine | null | null | null | null | null | null | Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa (1932, borderline PD) | [
"traditional-medicine",
"plant",
"malaria",
"fever",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Neem (mwarobaini) | Azadirachta indica | mwarobaini (forty ailments) | Fever, malaria symptoms, skin conditions, insect repellent, dental care | Leaves, bark, seeds, oil | Some sources borderline — use only pre-1928 documentation for clear PD status | null | null | null | null | null |
HLT006 | demographics | null | null | null | null | null | null | British East Africa Protectorate Blue Books 1910-1920 (PD) | [
"demographics",
"mortality",
"historical",
"baseline",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Estimates from colonial medical census records; significant undercounting of rural mortality | Life expectancy | East Africa (British East Africa Protectorate) | 1910-1920 | 28 | [
"Malaria",
"Smallpox",
"Cholera",
"Sleeping sickness",
"Maternal mortality"
] |
East Africa Health Data — Public Domain Historical Sources
Historical health and disease data for East Africa from public domain government medical reports and research (pre-1928). Structured for AI health tools and model training.
Sources (All Public Domain)
- British East Africa Protectorate Medical Reports 1900-1922
- Uganda Sleeping Sickness Commission Reports 1906
- Kenya Medical Department Reports 1920-1928
- Koch, Report on Cholera in Africa (1902)
- Bruce, Tsetse Fly Reports (1895)
- Ross, Malaria Reports (1910)
Content
- Disease burden by region and altitude
- Waterborne disease patterns
- Nutritional deficiency documentation
- Traditional medicine plants (pre-1928 documented)
- Historical demographic baselines
Related Tools
- afya-mcp — health coordination
- wapimaji-mcp — water/drought
- county-mcp — county services
Use this dataset with the coordination stack
- Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo —
pip install kipimo· leaderboard - Run the MCP servers this data serves:
pip install reli-cli && reli list— 33 servers on the official MCP Registry underio.github.gabrielmahia - Route tasks across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
- All East Africa datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia
Open weights welcome: these resources are model-agnostic by design — closed APIs, open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Nemotron, Llama), and small distilled models score on equal terms.
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