🌍 Lesson 2: Africa: 54 Countries

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt — Arab culture, Sahara Desert, Mediterranean coast. Egypt has the Pyramids (4,500 years old!). Morocco is just 14 km from Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Nigeria (224M people — Africa's most populous!), Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire. The music and food capital of Africa. Jollof rice debates between Nigeria and Ghana are SERIOUS business.

Kenya and Tanzania have the world's greatest wildlife. Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's tallest peak (5,895m) — and it's a freestanding volcano! Ethiopia has its own calendar (they're 7 years behind us) and its own alphabet.

The Congo Basin is the world's second-largest rainforest. DR Congo is massive — the size of Western Europe — and has $24 TRILLION in untapped minerals. Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon.

South Africa has 11 official languages and 3 capital cities. Botswana went from one of the poorest to one of Africa's richest thanks to diamonds. Victoria Falls (Zambia/Zimbabwe border) is the world's largest waterfall by volume.

Africa has the youngest population on Earth (median age: 19). Lagos, Nigeria will likely be the world's largest city by 2100. The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the United States. Africa produces 70% of the world's cocoa.