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In 2020, Black History Month was celebrated in seven African countries for the first time. Participating countries were Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Comores, Senegal and Cameroon. The event was initiated by the organisation Africa Mondo founded by Mélina Seymour.
The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
The history of North Africa has been divided into its prehistory, its classical period, the arrival and spread of Islam, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. The region has been influenced by many diverse cultures. The development of sea travel firmly brought the region into the ...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) [ 1 ] or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), [ 2 ][ 3 ] is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East (also called West Asia) and North Africa together. However, it is widely considered to be a more defined and apolitical alternative to ...
1993 May 24 — Eritrea breaks off from Ethiopia. 1994 February 28 — Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands are transferred by South Africa to Namibia. 2008 August 14 — Bakassi transferred to Cameroon by Nigeria. 2011 July 9 — South Sudan formally obtains independence from the Republic of Sudan.
The inhabitants of North Africa are roughly divided in a manner corresponding to the principal geographic regions of North Africa: the Maghreb, the Nile valley, and the Sahel. The countries of North Africa all have Modern Standard Arabic as their official language, and almost all their inhabitants follow Islam. The most spoken dialects are ...
Morocco, [ d ] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [ e ] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [ 1 ] and later in Nubia 's Kush, the Horn of Africa 's Dʿmt, and Ifrikiya 's Carthage. [ 2 ] Between around 3000 BC and 1000 AD, the Bantu expansion swept from north-western Central Africa (modern day Cameroon) across much of sub-Saharan Africa, laying the foundations for states ...