Africa is an amazing continent. From its start as the hearth of humanity, it is now home to more than a billion people. It has jungles and desert and even a glacier. It covers all four hemispheres. It is a place of superlatives. Learn about the continent of Africa from my brand new article, 10 facts about Africa.
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Matt tells us about the kind of facts I used to call Geography in my restrictive sense. He did not tell us about the people except there are lots of them.
Three thousand years ago I’d guess Egyptians led the world in many fields. But we haven’t heard much that impresses for more than two thousand years. Aren’t they called an emerging nation (?), a slow emergence. Along the Mediterranean there were some developments – but wait wasn’t that by Europeans, Greeks and Romans, not Africans. The Moses story is doubtful.
How about today? I am trying to think of a single African of note. Engineer, mathematical, chemist doctor, physicist, biologist, architect, inventor, composer, historian, geologist, astronomer, economist, explorer. The list goes on Unless you have an African mask, drum or spear displayed on a wall you are unlikely to have anything African in your house. Okay, some of your gold and diamonds are likely from South African mines built, developed and financed by Europeans.
Africans can brag about their superior distance runners from Ethiopia and that area. And their lack of obesity – but wait, malnourished and starving people cannot take much credit for being thin.
The most modern country of Sub Saharan Africa is South Africa. What has SA become after the end of Apartheid? The murder, rape, and child rape capital of the world. So bad that it has become impossible to keep statistics.
I cannot get the tiny country of Rwanda out of my head. In 1994 Rwandans killed 800,000 of their countrymen women and children with machetes and clubs in just 100 days. (Note:The US in 236 years and numerous wars has lost 640,000 in battle, land, sea, and air.)