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Africa for me are the countries below the Sahara.

Most people have little appreciation that the continent is made up of over 50!independent countries with 2000 ethnic groups speaking 700 different languages.

Africa name came from the Latin word aprica ( sunny) or the Greek word aphrike ( without cold)

It occupies 20% of the earth’s land surface. It is 5000 miles long and 4600 wide with a coastline smaller than Europe, cut in half by the equator.

The Sahara is still growing at about 250,000 acres a year.

In our overland adventure of two years it took us (in the high of summer ) 15 days to get from Morocco to Nouakchott Mauritania capital ( the place of the winds ) with the Aid structure road of no Return out of Nouakchott it took less than three minutes to fall off the end of the road back into the desert to Saint Louis Senegal.

The great irony of Africa is that this is the place where we mankind originated.

Unfortunately hundreds of thousands of its people are to this day killed for no other reason other than thy belong to the wrong tribe. Tribalism is one of the difficult African concepts to grasp.

Suffering from corruption and guns one cannot apply western values to a place which is not like any other.

Time means nothing because in Africa nothing is quite as it seems and nothing ever happens as it is supposed to.

Another words nothing political stays unchanged very long.

Gone are the days of Emperors such as Haile Selassie – Ethiopia

No place on earth has been mistreated, misunderstood and misreported. Its beauty is beyond verbal description.

Once axfootnote to history it now cannot be brushed aside.

With the climate changing the ecological metamorphosis is frightening.

The average human is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen.

The average American if asked what are the four things you would associate with Africa. I bet you would hear the following. Jungle- Heat-pygmies- Lions.

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