Travel Around the African continent

Nations of the African continent

Africa, the second largest land mass on Earth, is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea in the north, the Indian Ocean on its east coast, and the Red Sea on the northeast. The famous Nile river runs through it, as does the world’s greatest arid desert, the Sahara. The fifty-three nations of The African continent have an area of almost 1.2 million Square miles. 20.2 percent of the earth’s land contains almost 877 million people.
Humanity evolved as we are today about a hundred thousand years ago in eastern and southern Africa. Stone Age humans were able to make tools such as hooks and cutters out of bone, and made incredibly sharp stone blades. They began to move out of The African continent into Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the rest of the world.
Most of the inhabitants of The African continent are indigenous people of diverse cultures. They speak different languages and have hundreds of different religions, and livelihoods. Arabs have been the earliest immigrants in the 7th century AD when they entered into The African continent from the Middle East. They brought Islam with them. Europeans first arrived in The African continent in the 17th century near the Cape of Good Hope.
Most of Africa’s population is rural. Barring a few crops, like cacao and peanuts, agricultural production is low. The African continent produces three fourths of the world’s cocoa beans and about one third of its peanuts. The African continent is rich in precious minerals such as diamonds. It has oil, gas, and phosphate deposits. A manufacturing industry exists mainly in South Africa and in the North of the African continent in Egypt and Algeria.

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