INFORMATION ABOUT AFRICA YOU MAY NOT KNOW

THERE IS ACTUALLY A BEER BREWED

FROM BANANAS.

ALMOST HALF OF THE GOLD EVER MINED ON EARTH

HAS COME FROM ONE SMALL PLACE – WITWATERSRAND,

SOUTH AFRICA.

BETWEEN 1530 AND 1780 NEARLY 1.5 MILLION EUROPEANS

WERE SOLD INTO SLAVERY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING

WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE BARBARY SLAVE TRADE.

LESOTHO IS THE ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH THAT HAS

NO TERRITORY BELOW 1000 METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL.

FACEBOOK HAS 100 MILLION USERS IN AFRICA.

THE OFFICIAL TITLE OF IDI AMIN, THE UGANDAN DICTATOR,

WAS "HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT FOR LIFE, FIELD MARSHAL

AL HADJI DOCTOR IDI AMIN DADA, VC, DSO, MC, LORD OF

ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH AND FISHES OF THE SEAS

AND CONQUEROR OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AFRICA IN

GENERAL AND UGANDA IN PARTICULAR"

IN 2010 GHANA BANNED THE SALE OF SECOND HAND

UNDERWEAR

THE SAN PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA STILL USE THE

SAME TOOLS THAT WERE RECENTLY FOUND IN A CAVE.

THE TOOLS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE 44,000 YEARS OLD