01/07/2023
SOME FACTS ABOUT AFRICA YOU DIDN’T KNOW 🌍
1. Modern Hùmans are believed to have originated in Botswana🇧🇼, within the past 200, 000 years ago, solidifying the "Out of Africa Theory.
2. Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 is Africa’s only spanish speaking country.
3. Morocco 🇲🇦 is the most visited African country.
4. Nigeria 🇳🇬 has the richest Black person in Africa, Aliko Dangote.
5. Samuel Eto’o 🇨🇲 was formerly the highest paid Footballer in the world, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011.
6. The nothern most part of Africa is Cape Angela in Tunisia 🇹🇳.
7. Lesotho🇱🇸 is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation.
8. There was a dinosaur discovered in Niger 🇳🇪, believed to have been there around 115 to 105 million years ago. It was named Nigersaurus.
8. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 is a leader in African art and culture and hosts the largest craft market in Africa.
9. Nigeria 🇳🇬 has won more football cups than Eñgland.
10. Zimbabwe’s 🇿🇼 former President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was the world’s most educated President with 7 University degrees, two of them are Masters.
11. Al-Ahly of Egypt 🇪🇬 is the richest football club in Africa.
12. Didier Drogba 🇨🇮 is Chelsea’s highest goalscorer in European competition.
13. Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 is the most richest city in Africa.
14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play for Algeria 🇩🇿, but the selector rejected him, saying they are already many players like him in the team.
15. President Nelson Mandela 🇿🇦 is regarded as the well known person in the world.
16. President Robert Mugabe 🇿🇼 was jailed for 11 years for fighting for freedom.
17. Egypt 🇪🇬 was the first inventer of Paper and Ink.
18. Equatorial guinea 🇬🇶 has the highest literacy rate in Africa, 95% (2020).
19. In Rwanda 🇷🇼 There is a better gender equality than England 🇬🇧 and USA 🇺🇸.
20. Somalia 🇸🇴 got its first ATM on October 7, 2014.
21. South Africa