10 Surprising Things Europeans Don’t Know About Africa
1. Africa is not a country! Africa has 54 countries, each with its own unique culture, language, and history.
2. There are about 2,144 unique languages spoken across the continent.
3. Wakanda isn’t just fiction! Great African civilizations like Timbuktu, Nubia, Carthage, Benin, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Egypt existed centuries before the Europeans arrived.
4. The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world!
5. Africa is home to the world's oldest university - The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, established in 859 AD.
6. The Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood, is the second-largest in the world in terms of output, turning out over 2,500 movies every year.
7. The Great Wall of Benin was four times longer than the Great Wall of China.
8. The Nile River in Egypt is the longest river in the world. 4,132 miles (6,650 km)
9. Almost half of the gold ever mined on Earth comes from the Witwatersrand basin in South Africa
10. The African population is much younger than the rest of the world
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