{"id":4301,"date":"2015-06-16T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2015-06-16T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T17:18:33","slug":"facts-about-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/facts-about-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Gambia has only one university.<\/li>\n
  2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa\u2019s only\u00a0spanish speaking country.<\/li>\n
  3. South Africa is the most visited\u00a0African country.<\/li>\n
  4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa.<\/li>\n
  5. Samuel Eto\u2019o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about \u00a3350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011.<\/li>\n
  6. A person from Botswana is called\u00a0a Motswana, the plural is Batswana.<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0A person from Lesotho is called a\u00a0Mosotho.<\/li>\n
  8. A person from Niger is called a\u00a0Nigerien.<\/li>\n
  9. A person from Burkina Faso is called a Burkinabe.<\/li>\n
  10. Nigeria has won more football\u00a0cups than England.<\/li>\n
  11. Zimbabwe\u2019s President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the world\u2019s most educated President with 7 degrees, two of them are Masters.<\/li>\n
  12. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest club in Africa.<\/li>\n
  13. Didier Drogba is Chelsea\u2019s\u00a0highest goalscorer in European competition.<\/li>\n
  14. Johannesburg, South Africa is\u00a0the most visited city in Africa.<\/li>\n
  15. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play\u00a0for \u00c0lgeria, but the selector rejected him, saying they are already many players like him in the team.<\/li>\n
  16. President Jacob Zuma was given a special award by Fifa for refereeing on Robben Island during his years as a political prisoner.<\/li>\n
  17. President Robert Mugabe was\u00a0jailed for 11 years for fighting for freedom.<\/li>\n
  18. President Robert Mugabe is\u00a0Africa\u2019s oldest Head of State and the world\u2019s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.<\/li>\n
  19. The Seychelles are the most educated Africans. Seychelles\u2019 literacy rates (Adult: 92%, Youth: 99%) Zimbabwe is 2nd (Adult:\u00a091.2%,Youth: 99%).<\/li>\n
  20. Rwanda is a better country for\u00a0gender equality than England and USA.<\/li>\n
  21. Somalia got its first ATM on\u00a0October 7, 2014.<\/li>\n
  22. South Africa has the most Grammy award winners in Africa.<\/li>\n
  23. Ethiopia has the most airports in\u00a0Africa.<\/li>\n
  24. Ethiopia\u2019s economy is growing\u00a0faster than China\u2019s.<\/li>\n
  25. Eritrea\u2019s President, Isaias Afwerki is the least richest President in Africa.<\/li>\n
  26. Ethiopia is Africa\u2019s oldest\u00a0independent country, it has existed for over 3,000 years without\u00a0being colonised.<\/li>\n
  27. Haile Selassie 1 was the 225th\u00a0and last Emperor of Ethiopia.<\/li>\n
  28. Nigeria has the most monarchs\u00a0in the world.<\/li>\n
  29. Angola has more Portuguese\u00a0speakers than Portugal.<\/li>\n
  30. President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has ruled Angola since 1979.<\/li>\n
  31. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is Africa\u2019s longest serving Head of State. He has ruled Equatorial Guinea since August 3, 1979 when he overthrew his uncle, Francisco Nguema. His son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is his Vice President and will succeed him if he\u00a0resigns. He started ruling Dos Santo<\/li>\n
  32. George Weah of Liberia is the\u00a0first man to win World, European and African footballer of the year\u00a0in the same year.<\/li>\n
  33. Swaziland is the only remaining\u00a0absolute mornach in the world.<\/li>\n
  34. The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa followed by Swaziland.<\/li>\n
  35. King Sobhuza ll of Swaziland took the longest time in reigning Swaziland, 62 years as he was crowned in 1921 and died in August 1982 at the age of 83 years.<\/li>\n
  36. King Sobhuza II of swaziland, married 70 wives, who gave him 210 children between 1920 and 1970.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Zimbabwe is the only country in the world were almost everyone was a billionaire at one point<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Source: Africa 2.0 Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Gambia has only one university. Equatorial Guinea is Africa\u2019s only\u00a0spanish speaking country. South Africa is the most visited\u00a0African country. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa. Samuel Eto\u2019o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about \u00a3350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011. A person from Botswana is called\u00a0a Motswana, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}