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Category : Africa

Eating etiquette in Africa

In many parts of Africa, not tables and chairs to eat, not to make a knife and fork, not chopsticks, but the hand pilaf.
Dinner, we were sitting around a lunch box and a food box in the middle. Everyone hold with his left hand edge of the box lunch boxes or dish, with the right [...]

By authoritarian rule and the impact of colonialism, Africa is the world’s poorest continent, all of Africa’s total trade volume accounts for only one year one percent of the world. Published in 2006 by the United Nations Human Development Report, the lowest human development index ranks 23 countries are in Africa (No. 155 to No. [...]

Water shortage in Africa

According to UNESCO statistics, the water crisis in Africa resulted in 6,000 deaths each year, about 300 million of Africa’s population live in poverty because of lack of water and life.
In the next 20 years, at least 5 million people in Africa will be living in water scarcity dilemma. This will further lead to their [...]

Geographical areas of Africa

Used to be divided into geographical North, East, West and Central Africa and South Africa five regions, a total of 53 independent countries.
North Africa: usually including Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, the Azores and Madeira Islands. Including Egypt, Sudan and Libya, sometimes referred to as East and North Africa. The remaining countries and regions, [...]

Regional differences in Africa

Although the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) there are no African countries have joined the list of developed countries, but poverty in Africa as a whole is not totally unbearable, but also has a great wealth of variables. North of the Arabian countries in Africa and Europe and the Middle East has long [...]

Africa’s Economy

Economic History
African economies is trade in Africa, consisting of industrial and human resources. Africa’s population of about one billion, accounting for about 15% of the total population (2009 data). Africa is the world’s poorest continent, all of Africa’s total trade volume accounts for only one year one percent of the world. Published in 2009 by [...]

Many countries now open up large tracts of land for national parks, sanctuaries or forest reserves. These parks, only a few large that can be called from outside of the ecosystem, the majority is used for large mammals live. In East Africa there are sanctuaries of birds and marine organisms. Vegetation in protected areas are [...]

Status of animals in Africa

Africa is the vast amount of wildlife species and is known for large ungulates (about 90 kinds), and freshwater fish (2,000 species) are more than other continents.
Mammal
The main group of herbivorous animals, antelope in Africa, belongs to Bovidae (Bovidae) 4 under the subfamily. The first subfamily is like cattle Bovinae (cattle), this subfamily is further [...]

African Plants

The growth of plants in Africa rainfall, air temperature, geology and soil types such as the direct effects of the interaction; also fire by accident, human cultivation, grazing, livestock grazing and other further cuts. All of Africa’s total land area, forests account for about 1 / 5; forest areas, bush, grassland and forest, etc. about [...]

Africa’s climate

Africa’s climate greatly by its location across the equator of. Temperatures in tropical areas north and south throughout the year most of the time are high, but the height of mountains and coastal zones, ocean currents affect the temperature can be eased, for example, the cool Benguela Current (southwest) and the warm Mozambique Current (SE) [...]