Monday, September 24, 2012
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.
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 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
Sunday, September 23, 2012
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
Saturday, September 22, 2012
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.
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