John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Spekewas an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was in fact the first European that reached Lake Victoria and as such is the "discoverer of the source of the Nile". He is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863. In this hypothesis, he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth4 May 1827