A Guide on African History, African Civilisations and African Achievements

thinkafrica.net is a space to help you share accurate world history and black history. Here, you can learn about the achievements of Africans and descendants of Africans – Africans, Afro-Americans, Afro-Europeans, Caribbeans and Africans in Asia.

Here, you will find out many things you did not know about the continent. Please suggest topics you want us to write about, get in touch to express your support, or use our Facebook page to share content you enjoyed reading.

Africa is the 2^nd most populous continent on earth. It is home to a population of 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion people, with further Africans living in diaspora on other continents. It is the 2^nd largest continent by area, able to fit the United States of America into its land mass three times. The average African speaks anything from three to seven languages and in total more than 2,000 languages are spoken on the continent. Prior to colonisation, Africa was divided into close to 10,000 different states. Some polities were multi-ethnic such as the federation of Kwararafa.

There are 56 countries within Africa, the most countries within any continent followed by Asia.

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