AMUSING FACTS ABOUT AFRICA ( WORLD FACT SERIES PART 2)

• 1) BETWEEN 1500-2000 LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN AFRICA. 
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• 2)AFRICA IS THE SOURCE OF THE WORLD'S LONGEST RIVER.

3)AFRICA IS HOME TO THE WORLD'S OLDEST UNIVERSITY.

4)THE RICHEST MAN EVER IS AFRICAN.

5)THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOTTEST DESERT IS IN AFRICA.

6)AFRICA IS THE SECOND LARGEST CONTINENT ON EARTH.

7)THE WORLD’S LARGEST, TALLEST AND FASTEST ANIMALS COME FROM AFRICA.

8) SOUTH AFRICA IS A HOME TO THE HIGHEST BUNGY JUMPY IN THE WORLD

9)THE WORLD’S THEMED RESORT HOTEL IN THE FOUND IN AFRICA.

10) Africa is the world's hottest continent with deserts and drylands covering 60% of land surface area (e.g. Kalahari, Sahara and Namib). Africa is the world's second driest continent (after Australia). Africa has approximately 30% of the earth's remaining mineral resources

11) Africa had no history and therefore the Africans were a people without history. They propagated the image of Africa as a 'dark continent'

12) The ancient name of Africa was Alkebulan. Alkebu-lan “mother of mankind” or “garden of Eden”

13)Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa 

14) Africa ruled the world for 15,000 years and civilized mankind

15) Africa is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth, with the human species originating from the continent.

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