Africa is the world's second largest and second
most-populous continent (the first being Asia in both categories). The
continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez
Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian
Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign
states (countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states with
limited or no recognition.
Africa's average population is the youngest
amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide
median age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria
is its largest by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is
widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great
apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their
ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million
years ago, including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A.
afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster—with the earliest Homo
sapiens (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to
southern temperate zones.
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Spain (Spanish: España), officially theKingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country mostly located on the
Iberian Peninsula in Europe, with there also being two large archipelagoes, the
Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the
African Atlantic coast, two cities, Ceuta and Melilla, on the African mainland
and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the African coast. The
country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea
except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by
France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by
Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only European country to have a
border with an African country (Morocco) and its African territory accounts for
nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and
Melilla. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest
country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and
the European Union, and the fourth largest country in the European continent.
By population, Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the
European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid.
Morocco; Arabic: المَغرِب, translit. al-maġrib. 'place
the sun sets; the west'; Berber languages: ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ, translit. Lmeɣrib; French: Maroc),
officially known as the Kingdom of Morocco (Arabic: المملكة المغربية, translit. al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah. "The Western Kingdom";
Berber languages: ⵜⴰⴳⵍⴷⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ,
translit. Tageldit n Lmaɣrib), is a unitary
sovereign state located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Geographically,
Morocco is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior, large tracts of
desert and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Morocco has a population of over 33.8 million and an area of 446,550 km2
(172,410 sq mi). Its capital is Rabat, and the largest city is Casablanca.
Mali;
French: mali), officially the Republic of Mali (French: République du Mali), is
a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the
West African Craton. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area
of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi). The population of
Mali is 18 million. Its capital is Bamako. Mali consists of eight regions and
its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert, while
the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features
the Niger and Senegal rivers. The country's economy centers on agriculture and
fishing. Some of Mali's prominent natural resources include gold, being the
third largest producer of gold in the African continent, and salt. About half
the population lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 (U.S.) a
day. A majority of the population (90%) are Muslims.
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Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan
trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the
Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics,
astronomy, literature, and art. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an
area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast
of Africa. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France
seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan. French Sudan (then
known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence
in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's
withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the
independent Republic of Mali. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in
1991 led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as
a democratic, multi-party state.
Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial,
French: Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially the
Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Repْblica de Guinea Ecuatorial, French: République
de Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: Repْblica da Guiné Equatorial), is a country
located in Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq
mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name evokes
its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea. Equatorial Guinea is
the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language. As of
2015, the country had an estimated population of 1,222,245. Equatorial Guinea
consists of two parts, an insular and a mainland region. The insular region
consists of the islands of Bioko (formerly Fernando Pَ) in the Gulf of Guinea and
Annobَn, a small volcanic
island which is the only part of the country south of the equator. Bioko Island
is the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea and is the site of the country's
capital, Malabo.
Cameroon (French: Cameroun), officially theRepublic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun), is a country in Central
Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the
Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the
Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of
Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. French and English
are the official languages of Cameroon. The country is often referred to as
"Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural
features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. The
highest point at almost 4,100 metres (13,500 ft) is Mount Cameroon in the
Southwest Region of the country, and the largest cities in population-terms are
Douala on the Wouri river, its economic capital and main seaport, Yaoundé, its
political capital, and Garoua. After independence, the newly united nation
joined the Commonwealth of Nations, although the vast majority of its
territories had previously been a German colony and, after World War I, a
French mandate. The country is well known for its native styles of music,
particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football
team.
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland
(Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini; sometimes called kaNgwane or Eswatini), is a
sovereign state in Southern Africa. It is neighboured by Mozambique to its
northeast and by South Africa to its north, west and south; it is a landlocked
country. The country and its people take their names from Mswati II, the
19th-century king under whose rule Swazi territory was expanded and unified.
The country is an absolute monarchy, ruled by Ngwenyama ("King")
Mswati III since 1986. He is head of state and appoints the country's prime
ministers and a number of representatives of both chambers (Senate and House of
Assembly) in the country's parliament. Elections are held every five years to
determine the House of Assembly and the Senate majority. The current
constitution was adopted in 2005.
At no more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) north
to south and 130 kilometres (81 mi) east to west, Swaziland is one of the
smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are
diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
The population is primarily ethnic Swazis whose language is Swati. They
established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of
Ngwane III; the present boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the
scramble for Africa. After the Anglo-Boer War, Swaziland was a British
protectorate from 1903 until 1967. It regained its independence on 6 September
1968.
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The Witwatersrand (locally die Rand or the
Reef), is a 56-kilometre-long, north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists
of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several
north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name Witwatersrand,
meaning "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans. This east-west-running
scarp can be traced with only one short gap from Bedfordview (about 10 km west
of O.R. Tambo International Airport) in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort,
to Krugersdorp in the west (see the diagram at left below). The Witwatersrand
plateau forms a continental divide, with the run-off to the north draining into
the Indian Ocean via the Crocodile and Limpopo rivers, while the run-off to the
south drains via the Vaal into the Orange River and ultimately into the
Atlantic Ocean.
The scarp forms the northern edge of a 7- to
10-kilometre-wide plateau (or ridge) which rises about 200 m above the
surrounding plains of the Highveld. The entire plateau-like structure is also
often called the Witwatersrand. The plateau’s elevation above
sea-level is between 1700 and 1800 m. Because of the extraordinary quantities
of gold that have been extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks, the South
African currency was named the Rand in 1961.
The Barbary slave trade refers to the slave
markets that flourished on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which included
the Ottoman provinces of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania and the independent
sultanate of Morocco, between the 16th and middle of the 18th century. The
Ottoman provinces in North Africa were nominally under Ottoman suzerainty, but
in reality they were mostly autonomous. The North African slave markets were
part of the Arab slave trade. The Barbary Coast European slaves were acquired
by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from
Italy to the Netherlands, as far north as Iceland and east into the
Mediterranean.
Ohio State University history Professor Robert
Davis describes the White Slave Trade as minimized by most modern historians in
his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean,
the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800. Davis estimates that 1 million to
1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the
beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from
Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European
people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the
Mediterranean Sea coast), and roughly 700 Americans were held captive in this
region as slaves between 1785 and 1815. However, to extrapolate his numbers,
Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were
constant for a 250-year period, stating:
"There are no records of
how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate
roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep
populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed,
or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves
were needed annually to replenish numbers - about 850,000 captives over the
century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and
1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000."
Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho
(Sotho: Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country in southern Africa, completely
surrounded by South Africa. It is just over 30,000 km2 (11,583 sq mi) in size
and has a population of around 2 million. Its capital and largest city is
Maseru. Previously known as Basutoland, Lesotho declared independence from the
United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is a member of the United Nations, the
Commonwealth of Nations and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The name Lesotho translates roughly into the land of the people who speak
Sesotho. About 40% of the population lives below the international poverty line
of US$1.25 a day.
The present Lesotho, then called Basutoland,
emerged as a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Moshoeshoe, a son
of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bakoteli lineage, formed his own clan and
became a chief around 1804. Between 1821 and 1823, he and his followers settled
at the Butha-Buthe Mountain, joining with former adversaries in resistance
against the Lifaqane associated with the reign of Shaka Zulu from 1818 to 1828.
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Swahili:
Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within
the African Great Lakes region. It borders Kenya and Uganda to the north;
Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Zambia,
Malawi, and Mozambique to the south; and the Indian Ocean to the east. Mount
Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania. The United Nations has estimated Tanzania's 2016
population at 55.57 million. The
population is composed of several ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.
Tanzania is a presidential constitutional republic,
and since 1996, its official capital city has been Dodoma, where the
president's office, the National Assembly, and some government ministries are
located. Dar es Salaam, the former capital, retains most government offices and
is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centre.
Tanzania is a one party dominant state with the socialist-progressive Chama Cha
Mapinduzi party in power. Some
prehistoric population migrations into Tanzania include Southern Cushitic
speakers who moved south from Ethiopia; Eastern Cushitic people who moved into
Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago; and the
Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, who originated from the present-day
South Sudan-Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago. These movements took place at about the same time as
the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and
Lake Tanganyika areas. They subsequently migrated across the rest of Tanzania
between 2,300 and 1,700 years ago.
The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. The
name Namib is of Nama origin and means "vast place". According to the
broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200
mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, extending
southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the
Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa. The Namib's northernmost portion,
which extends 450 kilometres (280 mi) from the Angola-Namibia border, is known
as Moçâmedes Desert, while its southern portion approaches the neighboring
Kalahari Desert. From the Atlantic coast eastward, the Namib gradually ascends
in elevation, reaching up to 200 kilometres (120 mi) inland to the foot of the
Great Escarpment. Annual precipitation ranges from 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in
the most arid regions to 200 millimetres (7.9 in) at the escarpment, making the
Namib the only true desert in southern Africa. Having endured arid or semi-arid
conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert
in the world and contains some of the world's driest regions, with only western
South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for age and aridity benchmarks.
The desert geology consists of sand seas near the
coast, while gravel plains and scattered mountain outcrops occur further
inland. The sand dunes, some of which are 300 metres (980 ft) high and span 32
kilometres (20 mi) long, are the second largest in the world after the Badain
Jaran Desert dunes in China. Temperatures along the coast are stable and
generally range between 9–20 °C (48–68 °F) annually, while temperatures further
inland are variable—summer daytime temperatures can exceed 45 °C (113 °F) while
nights can be freezing. Fogs that originate offshore from the collision of the
cold Benguela Current and warm air from the Hadley Cell create a fog belt that
frequently envelops parts of the desert. Coastal regions can experience more
than 180 days of thick fog a year. While this has proved a major hazard to
ships—more than a thousand wrecks litter the Skeleton Coast—it is a vital
source of moisture for desert life
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in
Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the
southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi,
Mozambique and Tanzania. It is the ninth largest lake in the world and the
third largest and second deepest lake in Africa. It is home to more species of
fish than any other lake, including at least 700 species of cichlids. The
Mozambique portion of the lake was officially declared a reserve by the
Government of Mozambique on June 10, 2011, while in Malawi a portion of the
lake is included in Lake Malawi National Park. Lake Malawi is a meromictic
lake, meaning that its water layers do not mix. The permanent stratification of
Lake Malawi's water and the oxic-anoxic boundary (relating to oxygen in the
water) are maintained by moderately small chemical and thermal gradients.
Lake Malawi is between 560 kilometres
(350 mi) and 580 kilometres (360 mi) long, and about 75 kilometres (47 mi) wide
at its widest point. The lake has a total surface area of about 29,600 square
kilometres (11,400 sq mi). The lake is 706 m (2,316 ft) at its deepest point,
located in a major depression in the north-central part. Another smaller
depression in the far north reaches a depth of 528 m (1,732 ft). The southern
half of the lake is shallower; less than 400 m (1,300 ft) in the south-central
part and less than 200 m (660 ft) in the far south. The lake has shorelines on
western Mozambique, eastern Malawi, and southern Tanzania. The largest river
flowing into it is the Ruhuhu River, and there is an outlet at its southern
end, the Shire River, a tributary that flows into the very large Zambezi River
in Mozambique. The lake is about 350 kilometres (220 mi) southeast of Lake
Tanganyika, another of the great lakes of the East African Rift. The LakeMalawi National Park is located at the southern end of the lake.
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