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Africa: Encyclopedia - Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,370,000 km² (11,730,000 sq mi) includin...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Politics
Africa - Precolonial Africa.
Africa - Colonial Africa.
Colonialism had a destabilizing effect on what had been a number of ethnic gro...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Demographics
Africans may be grouped according to whether they live north or south of the Sahara Desert; these groups are called North Africans and Su...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Languages
Main article: African languages
By most estimates Africa contains well over a thousand languages. There are four major language families ...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Economy
Main article: Economy of Africa
Africa is the world's poorest inhabited continent: the United Nations' Human Development Report 2003 (of ...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Culture
Rather than one culture, Africa has a number of cultures that overlap. The most conventional distinction is that between sub-Saharan Afri...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Religion
Africans profess a wide variety of religious beliefs, with Christianity and Islam being the most widespread. Approximately 40% of all Afr...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Territories
Africa - Independent states.
East Africa
East Africa proper
Burundi (also sometimes considered part of Central Africa)
Kenya
Rwanda (a...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Demographics
Africans may be grouped according to whether they live north or south of the Sahara Desert; these groups are called North Africans and Su...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - History
Main article: History of Africa
Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human race originating from this cont...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Territories
Africa - Independent states.
East Africa
East Africa proper
Burundi (also sometimes considered part of Central Africa)
Kenya
Mozambiqu...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - History
Main article: History of Africa
Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human race originating from this cont...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Geography
Main article: Geography of Africa
Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earth's surfac...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Etymology
The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singul...
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