Abc's of Africa

Abc's of Africa By: Halie masterson

Africa is the 2nd largest continent, Asia is the 1st.

B) Beer is brewed from bananas

C) Over 1 million chinese people have moved to africa since 2001.

D) The deadliest animal in africa is the hippo.

E) tonnes of the world's electronic waste ends up in Africa where it is dumped in landfills.

F) Facebook has over 100 million active users in africa

G) Giraffe are already extinct in at least seven countries in Africa.

H) Home of the world’s largest animal, the African elephant, the tallest, the giraffe

In 2010, the country of Ghana, in Africa, banned the sale of secondhand underwear.

J) Jungles/ rainforests make up almost 3/5s of the animal species

K) Kenya- Home of the Wildlife like lions, elephants, and rhinos

Liberia-Along the coast, beach towns include the port of Buchanan, as well as laid-back Robertsport, known for its strong surf.

M) Malawi a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, is defined by its topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and enormous Lake Malawi.

N) 96 elephants are killed every day

O) only wild tigers live in Asia not africa

P) second most populated continent in the world

Q) Quinine a bitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as a tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug mostly common in africa

R) Giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines.

S) San people still use the same tools from 44,000 years

T) 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold as slaves in america.

U) Uganda-Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa whose diverse landscape of the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria.

V) Victoria Falls is the second most largest freshwater falls

W) People walk 3.7 miles to collect water

X) Xhosa is a member of a South African people traditionally living in the Eastern Cape Province. They form the second largest ethnic group in South Africa after the Zulus.

Y) Yearly rainfall varies dramatically across Africa. The northern half of the continent contains large areas of arid desert, where annual rainfall can be just 50mm.

Z) Zulu In 1879, the Zulu nation hands colonial British forces a resounding defeat in battle.

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