The Africa: The Goliath Frog

The Africa: The Goliath Frog: The Largest Frog The world’s largest frog lives in Africa and is found in the jungles of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Called the ...

Nobel Awards in Africa

Africa has 18 Nobel Award winners. It also has the only road where two Nobel prize winners lived: Vilakazi street in Soweto. 

Pictures from Africa

Animals in Africa

Africa is home to both the world’s fastest and largest land animals.

The cheetah, which can reach speeds of up to 120 km/h, is the fastest, while nothing matches the size of the African Elephant.

The Largest Land Animal in the world is the African Elephant.The elephant can wiegh 6 tons, stand 12′ and in two steps can be at speeds of 30 mph

The Goliath Frog

The Largest Frog

The world’s largest frog lives in Africa and is found in the jungles of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Called the Goliath Frog, it can grow up to a meter long and weigh 3 kilograms. 

Goliath Frog

The Vredeforte Dome, South Africa

The Vredefort Dome, found in South Africa, is the world’s largest impact crater. It measures 300 kilometers in diameter - 50 kilometers more than the second largest.

Plenty Tea in Kenya

Kenya is the world’s largest exporter of tea and one of the largest exporters of flowers.

Libya, Angola, Algeria and Nigeria all rank among the top 20 global oil exporters. 

The Tanganyika Lake

Tanganyika Lake in Central Africa is the world’s second-deepest lake, delving down over 1.7 kilometers. That’s 200 meters shy from the deepest lake, found in Russia.


"The fisheries of Lake Tanganyika currently yield approximately 200,000 tons of fish per year, and are far and away the most important source of animal protein for human consumption in this region of Central Africa

The Sahara Desert

The Sahara

The Sahara Desert in Africa is the biggest desert in the world. Covering or touching over a dozen countries, it takes up a larger area than the entire continental North America.

Props from the first Star Wars, part of which was filmed in Tunisia, can still be found there.

Mankind's oldest Relatives

Mankind’s oldest relatives were found in Africa. ‘Lucy’, a 3.2 million-year old ape-ancestor, was found in Ethiopia.

‘Ardi’, an even earlier ancestor that roamed the planet 4.4 million years ago, was found less than fifty kilometers away from Lucy’s site.

The Nile

The Nile

The Nile is the longest river in the world, measuring 6,650 km.

The Congo river, which is 4,700 km long, is the eighth-longest river in the world. 

Our Languges

Despite only having a seventh of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s dialects are found in Africa. The most occur in Central and West Africa. There are nearly 3,000 different languages spoken in Africa.