Five great archaeological wonders in Africa

The Pyramids of Giza The Pyramids of Giza are an ancient Egyptian necropolis consisting of three pyramids. The oldest of the Pyramids is the Pyramid of Khufu which is believed to have been completed around 2560 BC, over four and a half thousand years ago. The Khufu pyramid was the tallest manmade structure in the …

10 Great African Inventions

10 Great African Inventions The CAT Scan (South Africa) The Computed Axial Tomography Scan is an X-ray using electronic detectors, and was developed by physicist Alan Cormack for use in the data collection of body tissue in the late 1960s. Light-Pulse Chips (Ethiopia) In 2011, Dr. Solomon Assefa invented chips which communicate using light pulses …

The Ten Great African Thinkers

In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not readily know. Ten Great African Thinkers In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece …

50 THINGS THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT AFRICA

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world. 2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been …

FACTS ABOUT AFRICA

Africa is the world’s hottest continent, and the world’s second driest continent. Africa is the second-largest continent in the world, making up approximately 22% of the Earth’s total land area and 6% of Earth’s total surface. Africa is the second most populous continent in the world, with over 1.1 billion people, or about 16% of …