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Africa
Area
30,370,000 km2 (11,730,000 sq mi), 2nd
Population
1,225,080,510[1] (2016, 2nd)
Population density
36.4/km2 (94/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)
US$3.3 trillion (2017, 5th)
Demonym
African
Countries
54 (and 2 disputed)
Dependencies
External (3)[show]
Mayotte
Réunion
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Internal (4)[show]
Canary Islands
Ceuta
Madeira
Melilla
Largest cities
List of cities in Africa
Lagos
Cairo
Kinshasa
Johannesburg
Khartoum
Dar es Salaam
Alexandria
Abidjan
Algiers
Kano
Casablanca
Ibadan
Nairobi
Addis Ababa
Abuja
Accra
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (the first being Asia in both categories). At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area.[2] With 1.2 billion[1] people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. 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. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.[3] The majority of the continent and its countries are in the Northern Hemisphere, with a substantial portion and number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere.
Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all the continents;[4][5] the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4.[6] 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.[7] Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.[8]
Africa hosts a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages. In the late 19th century European countries colonised almost all of Africa. Africa also varies greatly with regard to environments, economics, historical ties and government systems. However, most present states in Africa originate from a process of decolonisation in the 20th century. African nations have attempted to cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa.
Contents
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1 Etymology
2 History
2.1 Prehistory
2.2 Early civilizations
2.3 Ninth to eighteenth centuries
2.4 Height of slave trade
2.5 Colonialism and the "Scramble for Africa"
2.6 Berlin Conference
2.7 Independence struggles
2.8 Post-colonial Africa
3 Geography
3.1 Climate
3.2 Fauna
3.3 Ecology and biodiversity
4 Politics
4.1 The African Union
5 Economy
6 Demographics
7 Languages
8 Culture
8.1 Visual art and architecture
8.2 Music and dance
8.3 Sports
9 Religion
10 Territories and regions
11 See also
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links
Etymology
Statue representing Africa at Palazzo Ferreria, in Valletta, Malta
Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of Africa, which in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya).[9][10] This name seems to have originally referred to a native Libyan tribe; see Terence for discussion. The name is usually connected with Hebrew or Phoenician ʿafar 'dust', but a 1981 hypothesis[11] has asserted that it stems from the Berber ifri (plural ifran) "cave", in reference to cave dwellers.[12] The same word[12] may be found in the name of the Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania, a Berber tribe originally from Yafran (also known as Ifrane) in northwestern Libya.[13]
Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of the province of Africa Proconsularis, which also included the coastal part of modern Libya.[14] The Latin suffix -ica can sometimes be used to denote a land (e.g., in Celtica from Celtae, as used by Julius Caesar). The later Muslim kingdom of Ifriqiya, located in modern-day Tunisia, also preserved a form of the name.
According to the Romans, Africa lay to the west of Egypt, while "Asia" was used to refer to Anatolia and lands to the east. A definite line was drawn between the two continents by the geographer Ptolemy (85–165 AD), indicating Alexandria along the Prime Meridian and making the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of "Africa" expanded with their knowledge.
Other etymological hypotheses have been postulated for the ancient name "Africa":
The 1st-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Ant. 1.15) asserted that it was named for Epher, grandson of Abraham according to Gen. 25:4, whose descendants, he claimed, had invaded Libya.
Isidore of Seville in his 7th-century Etymologiae XIV.5.2. suggests "Africa comes from the Latin aprica, meaning "sunny".
Massey, in 1881, stated that Africa is derived from the Egyptian af-rui-ka, meaning "to turn toward the opening of the Ka." The Ka is the energetic double of every person and the "opening of the Ka" refers to a womb or birthplace. Africa would be, for the Egyptians, "the birthplace."[15]
Michèle Fruyt in 1976 proposed[16] linking the Latin word with africus "south wind", which would be of Umbrian origin and mean originally "rainy wind".
Robert R. Stieglitz of Rutgers University in 1984 proposed: "The name Africa, derived from the Latin *Aphir-ic-a, is cognate to Hebrew Ophir."[17]
History
Main article: History of Africa
Further information: History of North Africa, History of West Africa, History of Central Africa, History of East Africa, and History of Southern Africa
Prehistory
Main article: Recent African origin of modern humans
Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered 24 November 1974 in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
Africa is considered by most paleoanthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth, with the human species originating from the continent.[18][19] During the mid-20th century, anthropologists discovered many fossils and evidence of human occupation perhaps as early as 7 million years ago (BP=before present). Fossil remains of several species of early apelike humans thought to have evolved into modern man, such as Australopithecus afarensis (radiometrically dated to approximately 3.9–3.0 million years BP,[20] Paranthropus boisei (c. 2.3–1.4 million years BP)[21] and Homo ergaster (c. 1.9 million–600,000 years BP) have been discovered.[2]
After the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens approximately 150,000 to 100,000 years BP in Africa, the continent was mainly populated by groups of hunter-gatherers.[22][23][24] These first modern humans left Africa and populated the rest of the globe during the Out of Africa II migration dated to approximately 50,000 years BP, exiting the continent either across Bab-el-Mandeb over the Red Sea,[25][26] the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco,[27] or the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt.[28]
Other migrations of modern humans within the African continent have been dated to that time, with evidence of early human settlement found in Southern Africa, Southeast Africa, North Africa, and the Sahara.[29]
The size of the Sahara has historically been extremely variable, with its area rapidly fluctuating and at times disappearing depending on global climatic conditions.[30] At the end of the Ice ages, estimated to have been around 10,500 BC, the Sahara had again become a green fertile valley, and its African populations returned from the interior and coastal highlands in Sub-Saharan Africa, with rock art paintings depicting a fertile Sahara and large populations discovered in Tassili n'Ajjer dating back perhaps 10 millennia.[31] However, the warming and drying climate meant that by 5000 BC, the Sahara region was becoming increasingly dry and hostile. Around 3500 BC, due to a tilt in the earth's orbit, the Sahara experienced a period of rapid desertification.[32] The population trekked out of the Sahara region towards the Nile Valley below the Second Cataract where they made permanent or semi-permanent settlements. A major climatic recession occurred, lessening the heavy and persistent rains in Central and Eastern Africa. Since this time, dry conditions have prevailed in Eastern Africa and, increasingly during the last 200 years, in Ethiopia.
The domestication of cattle in Africa preceded agriculture and seems to have existed alongside hunter-gatherer cultures. It is speculated that by 6000 BC, cattle were domesticated in North Africa.[33] In the Sahara-Nile complex, people domesticated many animals, including the donkey and a small screw-horned goat which was common from Algeria to Nubia.
Around 4000 BC, the Saharan climate started to become drier at an exceedingly fast pace.[34] This climate change caused lakes and rivers to shrink significantly and caused increasing desertification. This, in turn, decreased the amount of land conducive to settlements and helped to cause migrations of farming communities to the more tropical climate of West Africa.[34]
By the first millennium BC, ironworking had been introduced in Northern Africa and quickly spread across the Sahara into the northern parts of sub-Saharan Africa,[35] and by 500 BC, metalworking began to become commonplace in West Africa. Ironworking was fully established by roughly 500 BC in many areas of East and West Africa, although other regions didn't begin ironworking until the early centuries AD. Copper objects from Egypt, North Africa, Nubia, and Ethiopia dating from around 500 BC have been excavated in West Africa, suggesting that Trans-Saharan trade networks had been established by this date.[34]
Early civilizations
Main article: Ancient African history
Colossal statues of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt, date from around 1400 BC.
The origins and spread of the Bantu languages c. 1000 BC to c. 500 AD
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt.[36] One of the world's earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.[37][38] Egyptian influence reached deep into modern-day Libya and Nubia, and, according to Martin Bernal, as far north as Crete.[39]
An independent centre of civilization with trading links to Phoenicia was established by Phoenicians from Tyre on the north-west African coast at Carthage.[40][41][42]
European exploration of Africa began with Ancient Greeks and Romans.[citation needed] In 332 BC, Alexander the Great was welcomed as a liberator in Persian-occupied Egypt. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.[43]
Following the conquest of North Africa's Mediterranean coastline by the Roman Empire, the area was integrated economically and culturally into the Roman system. Roman settlement occurred in modern Tunisia and elsewhere along the coast. The first Roman emperor native to North Africa was Septimius Severus, born in Leptis Magna in present-day Libya—his mother was Italian Roman and his father was Punic.[44]
Christianity spread across these areas at an early date, from Judaea via Egypt and beyond the borders of the Roman world into Nubia;[45] by AD 340 at the latest, it had become the state religion of the Aksumite Empire. Syro-Greek missionaries, who arrived by way of the Red Sea, were responsible for this theological development.[46]
In the early 7th century, the newly formed Arabian Islamic Caliphate expanded into Egypt, and then into North Africa. In a short while, the local Berber elite had been integrated into Muslim Arab tribes. When the Umayyad capital Damascus fell in the 8th century, the Islamic centre of the Mediterranean shifted from Syria to Qayrawan in North Africa. Islamic North Africa had become diverse, and a hub for mystics, scholars, jurists, and philosophers. During the above-mentioned period, Islam spread to sub-Saharan Africa, mainly through trade routes and migration.[47]
Ninth to eighteenth centuries
African horseman of Baguirmi in full padded armour suit
The intricate 9th-century bronzes from Igbo-Ukwu, in Nigeria displayed a level of technical accomplishment that was notably more advanced than European bronze casting of the same period.[48]
Pre-colonial Africa possessed perhaps as many as 10,000 different states and polities[49] characterized by many different sorts of political organization and rule. These included small family groups of hunter-gatherers such as the San people of southern Africa; larger, more structured groups such as the family clan groupings of the Bantu-speaking peoples of central, southern, and eastern Africa; heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Sahelian kingdoms; and autonomous city-states and kingdoms such as those of the Akan; Edo, Yoruba, and Igbo people in West Africa; and the Swahili coastal trading towns of Southeast Africa.
By the ninth century AD, a string of dynastic states, including the earliest Hausa states, stretched across the sub-Saharan savannah from the western regions to central Sudan. The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and the Kanem-Bornu Empire. Ghana declined in the eleventh century, but was succeeded by the Mali Empire which consolidated much of western Sudan in the thirteenth century. Kanem accepted Islam in the eleventh century.
In the forested regions of the West African coast, independent kingdoms grew with little influence from the Muslim north. The Kingdom of Nri was established around the ninth century and was one of the first. It is also one of the oldest kingdoms in present-day Nigeria and was ruled by the Eze Nri. The Nri kingdom is famous for its elaborate bronzes, found at the town of Igbo-Ukwu. The bronzes have been dated from as far back as the ninth century.[50]
Ashanti yam ceremony, nineteenth century by Thomas E. Bowdich
The Kingdom of Ife, historically the first of these Yoruba city-states or kingdoms, established government under a priestly oba ('king' or 'ruler' in the Yoruba language), called the Ooni of Ife. Ife was noted as a major religious and cultural centre in West Africa, and for its unique naturalistic tradition of bronze sculpture. The Ife model of government was adapted at the Oyo Empire, where its obas or kings, called the Alaafins of Oyo, once controlled a large number of other Yoruba and non-Yoruba city-states and kingdoms; the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey was one of the non-Yoruba domains under Oyo control.
The Almoravids were a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of northwestern Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the eleventh century.[51] The Banu Hilal and Banu Ma'qil were a collection of Arab Bedouin tribes from the Arabian Peninsula who migrated westwards via Egypt between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Their migration resulted in the fusion of the Arabs and Berbers, where the locals were Arabized,[52] and Arab culture absorbed elements of the local culture, under the unifying framework of Islam.[53]
Ruins of Great Zimbabwe (flourished eleventh to fifteenth centuries)
Following the breakup of Mali, a local leader named Sonni Ali (1464–1492) founded the Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan and took control of the trans-Saharan trade. Sonni Ali seized Timbuktu in 1468 and Jenne in 1473, building his regime on trade revenues and the cooperation of Muslim merchants. His successor Askia Mohammad I (1493–1528) made Islam the official religion, built mosques, and brought to Gao Muslim scholars, including al-Maghili (d.1504), the founder of an important tradition of Sudanic African Muslim scholarship.[54] By the eleventh century, some Hausa states – such as Kano, jigawa, Katsina, and Gobir – had developed into walled towns engaging in trade, servicing caravans, and the manufacture of goods. Until the fifteenth century, these small states were on the periphery of the major Sudanic empires of the era, paying tribute to Songhai to the west and Kanem-Borno to the east.
1803 Cedid Atlas, showing the Africa from the perspective of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans controlled much of Northern Africa between the 14th and 19th centuries, and had vassal arrangements with a number of Saharan states.
Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th century.[55]
Height of slave trade
See also: Arab slave trade and Atlantic slave trade
Arab–Swahili slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma River (in today's Tanzania and Mozambique) as witnessed by David Livingstone
Slavery had long been practiced in Africa.[56][57] Between the 7th and 20th centuries, Arab slave trade (also known as slavery in the East) took 18 million slaves from Africa via trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean routes. Between the 15th and the 19th centuries (500 years), the Atlantic slave trade took an estimated 7–12 million slaves to the New World.[58][59][60] More than 1 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries.[61]
In West Africa, the decline of the Atlantic slave trade in the 1820s caused dramatic economic shifts in local polities. The gradual decline of slave-trading, prompted by a lack of demand for slaves in the New World, increasing anti-slavery legislation in Europe and America, and the British Royal Navy's increasing presence off the West African coast, obliged African states to adopt new economies. Between 1808 and 1860, the British West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard.[62]
Slave being inspected, from Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Action was also taken against African leaders who refused to agree to British treaties to outlaw the trade, for example against "the usurping King of Lagos", deposed in 1851. Anti-slavery treaties were signed with over 50 African rulers.[63] The largest powers of West Africa (the Asante Confederacy, the Kingdom of Dahomey, and the Oyo Empire) adopted different ways of adapting to the shift. Asante and Dahomey concentrated on the development of "legitimate commerce" in the form of palm oil, cocoa, timber and gold, forming the bedrock of West Africa's modern export trade. The Oyo Empire, unable to adapt, collapsed into civil wars.[64]
Colonialism and the "Scramble for Africa"
Main article: Colonization of Africa
Further information: Scramble for Africa
The Mahdist War was a colonial war fought between the Mahdist Sudanese and the British forces.
Areas of Africa under the sovereignty or influence of the colonial powers in 1913, along with modern borders.
Belgium
Germany
Spain
France
United Kingdom
Italy
Portugal
independent
In the late 19th century, the European imperial powers engaged in a major territorial scramble and occupied most of the continent, creating many colonial territories, and leaving only two fully independent states: Ethiopia (known to Europeans as "Abyssinia"), and Liberia. Egypt and Sudan were never formally incorporated into any European colonial empire; however, after the British occupation of 1882, Egypt was effectively under British administration until 1922.
Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference held in 1884–85 was an important event in the political future of African ethnic groups. It was convened by King Leopold II of Belgium, and attended by the European powers that laid claim to African territories. The Berlin Conference sought to end the European powers' Scramble for Africa, by agreeing on political division and spheres of influence. They set up the political divisions of the continent, by spheres of interest, that exist in Africa today.
Independence struggles
Imperial rule by Europeans would continue until after the conclusion of World War II, when almost all remaining colonial territories gradually obtained formal independence. Independence movements in Africa gained momentum following World War II, which left the major European powers weakened. In 1951, Libya, a former Italian colony, gained independence. In 1956, Tunisia and Morocco won their independence from France.[65] Ghana followed suit the next year (March 1957),[66] becoming the first of the sub-Saharan colonies to be granted independence. Most of the rest of the continent became independent over the next decade.
Portugal's overseas presence in Sub-Saharan Africa (most notably in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe) lasted from the 16th century to 1975, after the Estado Novo regime was overthrown in a military coup in Lisbon. Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965, under the white minority government of Ian Smith, but was not internationally recognized as an independent state (as Zimbabwe) until 1980, when black nationalists gained power after a bitter guerrilla war. Although South Africa was one of the first African countries to gain independence, the state remained under the control of the country's white minority through a system of racial segregation known as apartheid until 1994.
Post-colonial Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's longtime dictator, embezzled over $5 billion from his country.
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, most of which have borders that were drawn during the era of European colonialism. Since colonialism, African states have frequently been hampered by instability, corruption, violence, and authoritarianism. The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. However, few of them have been able to sustain democratic governments on a permanent basis, and many have instead cycled through a series of coups, producing military dictatorships.
Great instability was mainly the result of marginalization of ethnic groups, and graft under these leaders. For political gain, many leaders fanned ethnic conflicts, some of which had been exacerbated, or even created, by colonial rule. In many countries, the military was perceived as being the only group that could effectively maintain order, and it ruled many nations in Africa during the 1970s and early 1980s. During the period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, Africa had more than 70 coups and 13 presidential assassinations. Border and territorial disputes were also common, with the European-imposed borders of many nations being widely contested through armed conflicts.
South African paratroops on a raid in Angola during the South African Border War
Cold War conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the policies of the International Monetary Fund,[citation needed] also played a role in instability. When a country became independent for the first time, it was often expected to align with one of the two superpowers. Many countries in Northern Africa received Soviet military aid, while others in Central and Southern Africa were supported by the United States, France or both. The 1970s saw an escalation of Cold War intrigues, as newly independent Angola and Mozambique aligned themselves with the Soviet Union, and the West and South Africa sought to contain Soviet influence by supporting friendly regimes or insurgency movements. In Rhodesia, Soviet and Chinese-backed leftist guerrillas of the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front waged a brutal guerrilla war against the country's white government. There was a major famine in Ethiopia, when hundreds of thousands of people starved. Some claimed that Marxist economic policies made the situation worse.[67][68][69] The most devastating military conflict in modern independent Africa has been the Second Congo War; this conflict and its aftermath has killed an estimated 5.5 million people.[70] Since 2003 there has been an ongoing conflict in Darfur which has become a humanitarian disaster. Another notable tragic event is the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were murdered. AIDS in post-colonial Africa has also been a prevalent issue.
In the 21st century, however, the number of armed conflicts in Africa has steadily declined. For instance, the civil war in Angola came to an end in 2002 after nearly 30 years. This has coincided with many countries abandoning communist-style command economies and opening up for market reforms. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China,[71] which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline. Several African economies are among the world's fastest growing as of 2016. A significant part of this growth, which is sometimes referred to as Africa Rising, can also be attributed to the facilitated diffusion of information technologies and specifically the mobile telephone.[72]
Geography
Main article: Geography of Africa
Satellite photo of Africa. The Sahara Desert in the north can be clearly seen.
A composite satellite image of Africa (centre) with North America (left) and Eurasia (right), to scale
Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the largest landmass of the Earth. Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (transected by the Suez Canal), 163 km (101 mi) wide.[73] (Geopolitically, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula east of the Suez Canal is often considered part of Africa, as well.)[74]
From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia (37°21' N), to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa (34°51'15" S), is a distance of approximately 8,000 km (5,000 mi);[75] from Cape Verde, 17°33'22" W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51°27'52" E, the most easterly projection, is a distance of approximately 7,400 km (4,600 mi).[76] The coastline is 26,000 km (16,000 mi) long, and the absence of deep indentations of the shore is illustrated by the fact that Europe, which covers only 10,400,000 km2 (4,000,000 sq mi) – about a third of the surface of Africa – has a coastline of 32,000 km (20,000 mi).[76]
Africa's largest country is Algeria, and its smallest country is Seychelles, an archipelago off the east coast.[77] The smallest nation on the continental mainland is The Gambia.
Geologically, Africa includes the Arabian Peninsula; the Zagros Mountains of Iran and the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey mark where the African Plate collided with Eurasia. The Afrotropic ecozone and the Saharo-Arabian desert to its north unite the region biogeographically, and the Afro-Asiatic language family unites the north linguistically.
Climate
Main article: Climate of Africa
Africa map of Köppen climate classification
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of drylands and deserts.[78] The record for the highest-ever recorded temperature, in Libya in 1922 (58 °C (136 °F)), was discredited in 2013.[79][80]
Fauna
Main article: Fauna of Africa
Savanna at Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination of density and "range of freedom" of wild animal populations and diversity, with wild populations of large carnivores (such as lions, hyenas, and cheetahs) and herbivores (such as buffalo, elephants, camels, and giraffes) ranging freely on primarily open non-private plains. It is also home to a variety of "jungle" animals including snakes and primates and aquatic life such as crocodiles and amphibians. In addition, Africa has the largest number of megafauna species, as it was least affected by the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.
Ecology and biodiversity
Tropical beach in Trou-aux-Biches, Mauritius
Africa has over 3,000 protected areas, with 198 marine protected areas, 50 biosphere reserves, and 80 wetlands reserves. Significant habitat destruction, increases in human population and poaching are reducing Africa's biological diversity and arable land. Human encroachment, civil unrest and the introduction of non-native species threaten biodiversity in Africa. This has been exacerbated by administrative problems, inadequate personnel and funding problems.[78]
Deforestation is affecting Africa at twice the world rate, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).[81] According to the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center, 31% of Africa's pasture lands and 19% of its forests and woodlands are classified as degraded, and Africa is losing over four million hectares of forest per year, which is twice the average deforestation rate for the rest of the world.[78] Some sources claim that approximately 90% of the original, virgin forests in West Africa have been destroyed.[82] Over 90% of Madagascar's original forests have been destroyed since the arrival of humans 2000 years ago.[83] About 65% of Africa's agricultural land suffers from soil degradation.[84]
See also: Afrotropic ecozone and Palearctic ecozone
Politics
See also: List of political parties in Africa by country
There are clear signs of increased networking among African organizations and states. For example, in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire), rather than rich, non-African countries intervening, neighbouring African countries became involved (see also Second Congo War). Since the conflict began in 1998, the estimated death toll has reached 5 million.
The African Union
Member states of the African Union
Main article: African Union
The African Union (AU) is a 55-member federation consisting of all of Africa's states. The union was formed, with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as its headquarters, on 26 June 2001. The union was officially established on 9 July 2002[85] as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). In July 2004, the African Union's Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was relocated to Midrand, in South Africa, but the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights remained in Addis Ababa. There is a policy in effect to decentralize the African Federation's institutions so that they are shared by all the states.
The African Union, not to be confused with the AU Commission, is formed by the Constitutive Act of the African Union, which aims to transform the African Economic Community, a federated commonwealth, into a state under established international conventions. The African Union has a parliamentary government, known as the African Union Government, consisting of legislative, judicial and executive organs. It is led by the African Union President and Head of State, who is also the President of the Pan-African Parliament. A person becomes AU President by being elected to the PAP, and subsequently gaining majority support in the PAP. The powers and authority of the President of the African Parliament derive from the Constitutive Act and the Protocol of the Pan-African Parliament, as well as the inheritance of presidential authority stipulated by African treaties and by international treaties, including those subordinating the Secretary General of the OAU Secretariat (AU Commission) to the PAP. The government of the AU consists of all-union (federal), regional, state, and municipal authorities, as well as hundreds of institutions, that together manage the day-to-day affairs of the institution.
Political associations such as the African Union offer hope for greater co-operation and peace between the continent's many countries. Extensive human rights abuses still occur in several parts of Africa, often under the oversight of the state. Most of such violations occur for political reasons, often as a side effect of civil war. Countries where major human rights violations have been reported in recent times include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Côte d'Ivoire.
Euler diagram showing the relationships between various multinational African entities v • d • e
Economy
Map of the African Economic Community.
CEN-SAD
COMESA
EAC
ECCAS
ECOWAS
IGAD
SADC
UMA
Satellite image of city lights in Africa showing the lack of modern development on the continent during the mid-1990s.
Main article: Economy of Africa
See also: Economy of the African Union and Water in Africa
Rank
Country
GDP (PPP, 2017)
millions of USD
1 Egypt 1,199,013
2 Nigeria 1,118,434
3 South Africa 757,334
4 Algeria 629,265
5 Morocco 300,130
6 Ethiopia 195,779
7 Angola 191,999
8 Sudan 186,800
9 Kenya 163,377
10 Tanzania 162,836
Rank
Country
GDP (nominal, 2017)
millions of USD
1 Egypt 408,045
2 Nigeria 394,818
3 South Africa 344,064
4 Algeria 175,493
5 Angola 124,034
6 Sudan 118,979
7 Morocco 110,708
8 Ethiopia 79,735
9 Kenya 78,397
10 Tanzania 51,614
Although it has abundant natural resources, Africa remains the world's poorest and most underdeveloped continent, the result of a variety of causes that may include corrupt governments that have often committed serious human rights violations, failed central planning, high levels of illiteracy, lack of access to foreign capital, and frequent tribal and military conflict (ranging from guerrilla warfare to genocide).[86] According to the United Nations' Human Development Report in 2003, the bottom 24 ranked nations (151st to 175th) were all African.[87]
Poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and inadequate water supply and sanitation, as well as poor health, affect a large proportion of the people who reside in the African continent. In August 2008, the World Bank[88] announced revised global poverty estimates based on a new international poverty line of $1.25 per day (versus the previous measure of $1.00). 80.5% of the Sub-Saharan Africa population was living on less than $2.50 (PPP) per day in 2005, compared with 85.7% for India.[89]
Sub-Saharan Africa is the least successful region of the world in reducing poverty ($1.25 per day); some 50% of the population living in poverty in 1981 (200 million people), a figure that rose to 58% in 1996 before dropping to 50% in 2005 (380 million people). The average poor person in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to live on only 70 cents per day, and was poorer in 2003 than in 1973,[90] indicating increasing poverty in some areas. Some of it is attributed to unsuccessful economic liberalization programmes spearheaded by foreign companies and governments, but other studies have cited bad domestic government policies more than external factors.[91][92][93]
From 1995 to 2005, Africa's rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity. The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite,[94] 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium.[95] The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world's coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world's diamond reserves.[96] Guinea is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.[97] As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels. In fact, the food security crisis of 2008 which took place on the heels of the global financial crisis has pushed back 100 million people into food insecurity.[98]
In recent years, the People's Republic of China has built increasingly stronger ties with African nations and is Africa's largest trading partner. In 2007, Chinese companies invested a total of US$1 billion in Africa.[71]
A Harvard University study led by professor Calestous Juma showed that Africa could feed itself by making the transition from importer to self-sufficiency. "African agriculture is at the crossroads; we have come to the end of a century of policies that favoured Africa's export of raw materials and importation of food. Africa is starting to focus on agricultural innovation as its new engine for regional trade and prosperity."[99]
During US President Barack Obama's visit to Africa in July 2013, he announced a US$7 billion plan to further develop infrastructure and work more intensively with African heads of state. He also announced a new programme named Trade Africa, designed to boost trade within the continent as well as between Africa and the US.[100]
Demographics
Main article: Demographics of Africa
Woman from Benin
Africa's population has rapidly increased over the last 40 years, and consequently, it is relatively young. In some African states, more than half the population is under 25 years of age.[101] The total number of people in Africa increased from 229 million in 1950 to 630 million in 1990.[102] As of 2016, the population of Africa is estimated at 1.2 billion[1]. Africa's total population surpassing other continents is fairly recent; African population surpassed Europe in the 1990s, while the Americas was overtaken sometime around the year 2000; Africa's rapid population growth is expected to overtake the only two nations currently larger than its population, at roughly the same time - India and China's 1.4 billion people each will swap ranking around the year 2022.[103]
San Bushman man from Botswana
Speakers of Bantu languages (part of the Niger–Congo family) are the majority in southern, central and southeast Africa. The Bantu-speaking peoples from The Sahel progressively expanded over most of Sub-Saharan Africa.[104] But there are also several Nilotic groups in South Sudan and East Africa, the mixed Swahili people on the Swahili Coast, and a few remaining indigenous Khoisan ("San" or "Bushmen") and Pygmy peoples in southern and central Africa, respectively. Bantu-speaking Africans also predominate in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, and are found in parts of southern Cameroon. In the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa, the distinct people known as the Bushmen (also "San", closely related to, but distinct from "Hottentots") have long been present. The San are physically distinct from other Africans and are the indigenous people of southern Africa. Pygmies are the pre-Bantu indigenous peoples of central Africa.[105]
The peoples of West Africa primarily speak Niger–Congo languages, belonging mostly to its non-Bantu branches, though some Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic speaking groups are also found. The Niger–Congo-speaking Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, Akan and Wolof ethnic groups are the largest and most influential. In the central Sahara, Mandinka or Mande groups are most significant. Chadic-speaking groups, including the Hausa, are found in more northerly parts of the region nearest to the Sahara, and Nilo-Saharan communities, such as the Songhai, Kanuri and Zarma, are found in the eastern parts of West Africa bordering Central Africa.
The peoples of North Africa consist of three main indigenous groups: Berbers in the northwest, Egyptians in the northeast, and Nilo-Saharan-speaking peoples in the east. The Arabs who arrived in the 7th century AD introduced the Arabic language and Islam to North Africa. The Semitic Phoenicians (who founded Carthage) and Hyksos, the Indo-Iranian Alans, the Indo- European Greeks, Romans, and Vandals settled in North Africa as well. Significant Berber communities remain within Morocco and Algeria in the 21st century, while, to a lesser extent, Berber speakers are also present in some regions of Tunisia and Libya.[106] The Berber-speaking Tuareg and other often-nomadic peoples are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa. In Mauritania, there is a small but near-extinct Berber community in the north and Niger–Congo-speaking peoples in the south, though in both regions Arabic and Arab culture predominates. In Sudan, although Arabic and Arab culture predominate, it is mostly inhabited by groups that originally spoke Nilo-Saharan, such as the Nubians, Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa, who, over the centuries, have variously intermixed with migrants from the Arabian peninsula. Small communities of Afro-Asiatic-speaking Beja nomads can also be found in Egypt and Sudan.[citation needed]
Beja bedouins from Northeast Africa
In the Horn of Africa, some Ethiopian and Eritrean groups (like the Amhara and Tigrayans, collectively known as Habesha) speak languages from the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, while the Oromo and Somali speak languages from the Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic.
Prior to the decolonization movements of the post-World War II era, Europeans were represented in every part of Africa.[107] Decolonization during the 1960s and 1970s often resulted in the mass emigration of white settlers – especially from Algeria and Morocco (1.6 million pieds-noirs in North Africa),[108] Kenya, Congo,[109] Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola.[110] Between 1975 and 1977, over a million colonials returned to Portugal alone.[111] Nevertheless, white Africans remain an important minority in many African states, particularly Zimbabwe, Namibia, Réunion, and the Republic of South Africa.[112] The country with the largest white African population is South Africa.[113] Dutch and British diasporas represent the largest communities of European ancestry on the continent today.[114]
European colonization also brought sizable groups of Asians, particularly from the Indian subcontinent, to British colonies. Large Indian communities are found in South Africa, and smaller ones are present in Kenya, Tanzania, and some other southern and southeast African countries. The large Indian community in Uganda was expelled by the dictator Idi Amin in 1972, though many have since returned. The islands in the Indian Ocean are also populated primarily by people of Asian origin, often mixed with Africans and Europeans. The Malagasy people of Madagascar are an Austronesian people, but those along the coast are generally mixed with Bantu, Arab, Indian and European origins. Malay and Indian ancestries are also important components in the group of people known in South Africa as Cape Coloureds (people with origins in two or more races and continents). During the 20th century, small but economically important communities of Lebanese and Chinese[71] have also developed in the larger coastal cities of West and East Africa, respectively.[115]
Languages
Main article: Languages of Africa
Map showing the traditional language families represented in Africa:
Afroasiatic (Semitic-Hamitic)
Austronesian (Malay-Polynesian)
Indo-European
Khoisan
Niger-Congo:
Bantu
Central and Eastern Sudanese
Central Bantoid
Eastern Bantoid
Guinean
Mande
Western Bantoid
Nilo-Saharan:
Kanuri
Nilotic
Songhai
By most estimates, well over a thousand languages (UNESCO has estimated around two thousand) are spoken in Africa.[116] Most are of African origin, though some are of European or Asian origin. Africa is the most multilingual continent in the world, and it is not rare for individuals to fluently speak not only multiple African languages, but one or more European ones as well. There are four major language families indigenous to Africa:
The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout the Horn of Africa, North Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.
The Nilo-Saharan language family consists of more than a hundred languages spoken by 30 million people. Nilo-Saharan languages are spoken by ethnic groups in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and northern Tanzania.
The Niger-Congo language family covers much of Sub-Saharan Africa. In terms of number of languages, it is the largest language family in Africa and perhaps the largest in the world.
The Khoisan languages number about fifty and are spoken in Southern Africa by approximately 400,000 people.[117] Many of the Khoisan languages are endangered. The Khoi and San peoples are considered the original inhabitants of this part of Africa.
Following the end of colonialism, nearly all African countries adopted official languages that originated outside the continent, although several countries also granted legal recognition to indigenous languages (such as Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa). In numerous countries, English and French (see African French) are used for communication in the public sphere such as government, commerce, education and the media. Arabic, Portuguese, Afrikaans and Spanish are examples of languages that trace their origin to outside of Africa, and that are used by millions of Africans today, both in the public and private spheres. Italian is spoken by some in former Italian colonies in Africa. German is spoken in Namibia, as it was a former German protectorate.
Culture
The rock-hewn Church of Saint George in Lalibela, Ethiopia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Main article: Culture of Africa
Some aspects of traditional African cultures have become less practised in recent years as a result of neglect and suppression by colonial and post-colonial regimes. For example, African customs were discouraged, and African languages were prohibited in mission schools.[118] Leopold II of Belgium attempted to "civilize" Africans by discouraging polygamy and witchcraft.[118]
Obidoh Freeborn posits that colonialism is one element that has created the character of modern African art.[119] According to authors Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, "The precipitous alterations in the power structure wrought by colonialism were quickly followed by drastic iconographic changes in the art." [120] Fraser and Cole assert that, in Igboland, some art objects "lack the vigor and careful craftsmanship of the earlier art objects that served traditional functions.[120] Author Chika Okeke-Agulu states that "the racist infrastructure of British imperial enterprise forced upon the political and cultural guardians of empire a denial and suppression of an emergent sovereign Africa and modernist art." [121] In Soweto, the West Rand Administrative Board established a Cultural Section to collect, read, and review scripts before performances could occur.[122] Editors F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi comment that the current identity of African literature had its genesis in the "traumatic encounter between Africa and Europe." [123] On the other hand, Mhoze Chikowero believes that Africans deployed music, dance, spirituality, and other performative cultures to (re)asset themselves as active agents and indigenous intellectuals, to unmake their colonial marginalization and reshape their own destinies." [124]
There is now a resurgence in the attempts to rediscover and revalue African traditional cultures, under such movements as the African Renaissance, led by Thabo Mbeki, Afrocentrism, led by a group of scholars, including Molefi Asante, as well as the increasing recognition of traditional spiritualism through decriminalization of Vodou and other forms of spirituality.
Visual art and architecture
African art and architecture reflect the diversity of African cultures. The region's oldest known beads were made from Nassarius shells and worn as personal ornaments 72,000 years ago.[125] The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the world's tallest structure for 4,000 years, until the completion of Lincoln Cathedral around the year 1300. The stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe are also noteworthy for their architecture, as are the monolithic churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia, such as the Church of Saint George.
A musician from South Africa
Music and dance
Main article: Music of Africa
The Namibia rugby team
Egypt has long been a cultural focus of the Arab world, while remembrance of the rhythms of sub-Saharan Africa, in particular West Africa, was transmitted through the Atlantic slave trade to modern samba, blues, jazz, reggae, hip hop, and rock. The 1950s through the 1970s saw a conglomeration of these various styles with the popularization of Afrobeat and Highlife music. Modern music of the continent includes the highly complex choral singing of southern Africa and the dance rhythms of the musical genre of soukous, dominated by the music of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Indigenous musical and dance traditions of Africa are maintained by oral traditions, and they are distinct from the music and dance styles of North Africa and Southern Africa. Arab influences are visible in North African music and dance and, in Southern Africa, Western influences are apparent due to colonization.
Sports
Fifty-four African countries have football (soccer) teams in the Confederation of African Football. Egypt has won the African Cup seven times, and a record-making three times in a row. Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, and Algeria have advanced to the knockout stage of recent FIFA World Cups. South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup tournament, becoming the first African country to do so.
Cricket is popular in some African nations. South Africa and Zimbabwe have Test status, while Kenya is the leading non-test team and previously had One-Day International cricket (ODI) status (from 10 October 1997, until 30 January 2014). The three countries jointly hosted the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Namibia is the other African country to have played in a World Cup. Morocco in northern Africa has also hosted the 2002 Morocco Cup, but the national team has never qualified for a major tournament. Rugby is a popular sport in South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
Religion
Main article: Religion in Africa
See also: African divination
Africans profess a wide variety of religious beliefs, and statistics on religious affiliation are difficult to come by since they are often a sensitive a topic for governments with mixed religious populations.[126][127] According to the World Book Encyclopedia, Islam is the largest religion in Africa, followed by Christianity. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, 45% of the population are Christians, 40% are Muslims, and 10% follow traditional religions. A small number of Africans are Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Baha'i, or Jewish. There is also a minority of people in Africa who are irreligious.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Great Mosque of Kairouan, founded in 670, is the oldest mosque in North Africa;[128] it is located in Kairouan, Tunisia
Vodun altar in Abomey, Benin
National Church of Nigeria, Abuja
A map showing religious distribution in Africa
Territories and regions
Main articles: List of regions of Africa and List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
Algeria
Togo
Benin
Botswana
Cameroon
Cent Afr Rep
Chad
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Cape*
Verde
Libya
Mali
Ghana
Sierra
Leone
Ivory
Coast
Burkina
Faso
Mauritania
Morocco
São Tomé
and Príncipe*
Gabon
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Congo
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
South Sudan
Tunisia
Western
Sahara
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea
Bissau
Guinea
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mozambique
Burundi
Rwanda
Uganda
Tanzania
Angola
Saint Helena (UK)*
Lesotho
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Mauritius*
Réunion*
*Comoros
Seychelles
Atlantic
Ocean
Atlantic
Ocean
Indian
Ocean
Strait of Gibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
Red
Sea
The countries in this table are categorized according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations, and data included are per sources in cross-referenced articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.
Regions of Africa:
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Central Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Physical map of Africa
Political map of Africa
Arms
Flag
Name of region[129] and
territory, with flag
Area
(km²)
Population[130]
Year
Density
(per km²)
Capital
Northern Africa
Algeria 2,381,740 34,178,188 2009 14 Algiers
Canary Islands (Spain)[131] 7,492 2,118,519 2010 226 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ceuta (Spain)[132] 20 71,505 2001 3,575 —
Egypt[133] 1,001,450 82,868,000 2012 83 Cairo
Libya 1,759,540 6,310,434 2009 4 Tripoli
Madeira (Portugal)[134] 797 245,000 2001 307 Funchal
Melilla (Spain)[135] 12 66,411 2001 5,534 —
Morocco 446,550 34,859,364 2009 78 Rabat
Sudan 1,861,484 30,894,000 2008 17 Khartoum
Tunisia 163,610 10,486,339 2009 64 Tunis
Western Sahara[136] 266,000 405,210 2009 2 El Aaiún
Eastern Africa
Burundi 27,830 8,988,091 2009 323 Bujumbura
British Indian Ocean Territory – Chagos Archipelago
(United Kingdom) 56.13 3,000 2012 53.4 Diego Garcia
Comoros 2,170 752,438 2009 347 Moroni
Djibouti 23,000 828,324 2015 22 Djibouti
Eritrea 121,320 5,647,168 2009 47 Asmara
Ethiopia 1,127,127 84,320,987 2012 75 Addis Ababa
Kenya 582,650 39,002,772 2009 66 Nairobi
Madagascar 587,040 20,653,556 2009 35 Antananarivo
Malawi 118,480 14,268,711 2009 120 Lilongwe
Mauritius 2,040 1,284,264 2009 630 Port Louis
Mayotte (France) 374 223,765 2009 490 Mamoudzou
Mozambique 801,590 21,669,278 2009 27 Maputo
Réunion (France) 2,512 743,981 2002 296 Saint-Denis
Rwanda 26,338 10,473,282 2009 398 Kigali
Seychelles 455 87,476 2009 192 Victoria
Somalia 637,657 9,832,017 2009 15 Mogadishu
South Sudan 619,745 8,260,490 2008 13 Juba
Tanzania 945,087 44,929,002 2009 43 Dodoma
Uganda 236,040 32,369,558 2009 137 Kampala
Zambia 752,614 11,862,740 2009 16 Lusaka
Zimbabwe 390,580 11,392,629 2009 29 Harare
Central Africa
Angola 1,246,700 12,799,293 2009 10 Luanda
Cameroon 475,440 18,879,301 2009 40 Yaoundé
Central African Republic 622,984 4,511,488 2009 7 Bangui
Chad 1,284,000 10,329,208 2009 8 N'Djamena
Republic of the Congo 342,000 4,012,809 2009 12 Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,345,410 69,575,000 2012 30 Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea 28,051 633,441 2009 23 Malabo
Gabon 267,667 1,514,993 2009 6 Libreville
São Tomé and Príncipe 1,001 212,679 2009 212 São Tomé
Southern Africa
Botswana 600,370 1,990,876 2009 3 Gaborone
Lesotho 30,355 2,130,819 2009 70 Maseru
Namibia 825,418 2,108,665 2009 3 Windhoek
South Africa 1,219,912 51,770,560 2011 42 Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria[137]
Swaziland 17,363 1,123,913 2009 65 Mbabane
Western Africa
Benin 112,620 8,791,832 2009 78 Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso 274,200 15,746,232 2009 57 Ouagadougou
Cape Verde 4,033 429,474 2009 107 Praia
The Gambia 11,300 1,782,893 2009 158 Banjul
Ghana 239,460 23,832,495 2009 100 Accra
Guinea 245,857 10,057,975 2009 41 Conakry
Guinea-Bissau 36,120 1,533,964 2009 43 Bissau
Ivory Coast 322,460 20,617,068 2009 64 Abidjan,[138] Yamoussoukro
Liberia 111,370 3,441,790 2009 31 Monrovia
Mali 1,240,000 12,666,987 2009 10 Bamako
Mauritania 1,030,700 3,129,486 2009 3 Nouakchott
Niger 1,267,000 15,306,252 2009 12 Niamey
Nigeria 923,768 166,629,000 2012 180 Abuja
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) 420 7,728 2012 13 Jamestown
Senegal 196,190 13,711,597 2009 70 Dakar
Sierra Leone 71,740 6,440,053 2009 90 Freetown
Togo 56,785 6,019,877 2009 106 Lomé
Africa Total 30,368,609 1,001,320,281 2009 33
See also
Africa portal
Geography portal
Book: Africa
African Union
Afro-Eurasia
Index of Africa-related articles
List of African millionaires
List of highest mountain peaks of Africa
Lists of cities in Africa
Outline of Africa
Urbanization in Africa
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Asante, Molefi (2007). The History of Africa. USA: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-77139-0.
Clark, J. Desmond (1970). The Prehistory of Africa. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-02069-2.
Crowder, Michael (1978). The Story of Nigeria. London: Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-04947-9.
Davidson, Basil (1966). The African Past: Chronicles from Antiquity to Modern Times. Harmondsworth: Penguin. OCLC 2016817.
Gordon, April A.; Donald L. Gordon (1996). Understanding Contemporary Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55587-547-3.
Khapoya, Vincent B. (1998). The African experience: an introduction. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-745852-3.
Moore, Clark D., and Ann Dunbar (1968). Africa Yesterday and Today, in series, The George School Readings on Developing Lands. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Naipaul, V. S.. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief. Picador, 2010. ISBN 978-0-330-47205-0
Wade, Lizzie (2015). "Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aaa7864.
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Afriekku – Livvi-Karelian
olo
olo
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afirika
Afirika – Ganda
lg
lg
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Lombard
lmo
lmo
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Hungarian
hu
hu
interlanguage-link-target

values: अफ्रिका – Maithili

values:
https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Malagasy
mg
mg
interlanguage-link-target

values: ആഫ്രിക്ക – Malayalam

values:
https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Maltese
mt
mt
interlanguage-link-target

values: आफ्रिका – Marathi

values:
https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Malay
ms
ms
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африк – Moksha

values: အာဖရိက – Burmese

values:
https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Nāhuatl
nah
nah
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://na.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprika
Aprika – Nauru
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Dutch
nl
nl
interlanguage-link-target

values: अफ्रिका – Nepali

values: अफ्रिका – Newari

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values:
https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Neapolitan
nap
nap
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африка – Chechen

values:
https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikoo
Afrikoo – Northern Frisian
frr
frr
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afreka
Afreka – Norfuk / Pitkern
pih
pih
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Norwegian
no
no
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Norwegian Nynorsk
nn
nn
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrique
Afrique – Norman
nrm
nrm
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Novial
nov
nov
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Occitan
oc
oc
interlanguage-link-target

values: ଆଫ୍ରିକା – Odia

values:
https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa
Afrikaa – Oromo
om
om
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Uzbek
uz
uz
interlanguage-link-target

values: ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ – Punjabi

values:
https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Pangasinan
pag
pag
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Papiamento
pap
pap
interlanguage-link-target

values: افريقا – Pashto

values:
https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Jamaican Creole English
jam
jam
interlanguage-link-target

values: ទី្វបអាហ្វ្រិក – Khmer

values:
https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrike
Afrike – Picard
pcd
pcd
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprika
Aprika – Tok Pisin
tpi
tpi
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Low German
nds
nds
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afryka
Afryka – Polish
pl
pl
interlanguage-link-target

values: Αφρικήν – Pontic

values:
https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Kara-Kalpak
kaa
kaa
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Crimean Turkish
crh
crh
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Romanian
ro
ro
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Romani
rmy
rmy
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
Africa – Romansh
rm
rm
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrika
Aphrika – Quechua
qu
qu
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африка – Rusyn

values: Африка – Russian

values: Африка – Sakha

values:
https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aferika
Aferika – Samoan
sm
sm
interlanguage-link-target

values: आफ्रिकाखण्डः – Sanskrit

values:
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africae
Africae – Scots
sco
sco
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikoa
Afrikoa – Saterland Frisian
stq
stq
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Southern Sotho
st
st
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Northern Sotho
nso
nso
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aferika
Aferika – Tswana
tn
tn
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Albanian
sq
sq
interlanguage-link-target

values: අප්‍රිකාව – Sinhala

values: آفريڪا – Sindhi

values:
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Slovak
sk
sk
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Slovenian
sl
sl
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Silesian
szl
szl
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Somali
so
so
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrka
Afrka – Sranan Tongo
srn
srn
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африка – Serbian

values:
https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Serbo-Croatian
sh
sh
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Sundanese
su
su
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikka
Afrikka – Finnish
fi
fi
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Swedish
sv
sv
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprika
Aprika – Tagalog
tl
tl
interlanguage-link-target

values: ஆப்பிரிக்கா – Tamil

values:
https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafrikt
Tafrikt – Kabyle
kab
kab
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африка – Tatar

values: ఆఫ్రికా – Telugu

values: ทวีปแอฟริกา – Thai

values: Африқо – Tajik

values:
https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afurika
Afurika – Venda
ve
ve
interlanguage-link-target

values: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ – Tulu

values:
https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Turkish
tr
tr
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Turkmen
tk
tk
interlanguage-link-target

values: Африка – Udmurt

values: افریقا – Urdu

values: ئافرىقا – Uyghur

values:
https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feihcouh
Feihcouh – Zhuang
za
za
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrik
Afrik – Veps
vep
vep
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikop
Frikop – Volapük
vo
vo
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrike
Afrike – Walloon
wa
wa
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – West Flemish
vls
vls
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprika
Aprika – Waray
war
war
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrig
Afrig – Wolof
wo
wo
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Tsonga
ts
ts
interlanguage-link-target

values: אפריקע – Yiddish

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values:
https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Zazaki
diq
diq
interlanguage-link-target

values:
https://zea.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika
Afrika – Zeelandic
zea
zea
interlanguage-link-target

values: अफ्रिका – Doteli

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