POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA AND PERSPECTIVES OF AFRICAN CULTURE

Question 1

WHAT IS POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA

Answer 1

Political Geography of Africa accounts for *physical and *conceptual presence of Africa & African cultures, political systems and values across *time and space.

Question 2

wHAT DOES PHYSICAL means

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The Physical: Refers to what the map of Africa represents (land mass), its people, traditions, and political institutions

Question 3

How many ways can Africa be divided physically

Answer 3

Physically, African can be divided regionally into
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) vs North Africa (Maghreb).

Question 4

What does conceptual reffer to as

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The Conceptual: African presence through its people, cultures, traditions, and practices both on the continent and in the diaspora

Question 5

African diaspora

Answer 5

The African diaspora is a term used to describe the descendants of Africans who were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported to other parts of the world, primarily the Americas
“the global community of people of African descent who share a common history of displacement and struggle.”
African Diaspora—Europe, Caribbean, North America & South America, Pacific Islands, India, Asia.

Question 6

Across time and space

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Time & Space: refers to the historical & contemporary expansion of Africa: its values, political and religious systems in the diaspora and on the continent

Question 7

Africa

Answer 7

Africa is the second largest continent after Asia

Question 8

What continent is the largest continent

Answer 8

ASIA

Question 9

Land area app in Africa

Answer 9

land area (incl. lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.) of a little over 11,700,000 km2

Question 10

Land area of Africa

Answer 10

11,700,000km^2

Question 11

How do Africa stretches

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Continental Africa stretches about 5000 miles from Cape Town to Cairo, and 3000 from Dakar to Mogadishu

Question 12

POPULATION IN AFRICA

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1.32 billion live in Africa as at 2019

Question 13

iMPORTANT FACTS

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Continental Africa is about USA, Argentina, Europe, India, China and New Zealand combined or about 3½ the size of the USA

Question 14

Continental africa the size of USA

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3 and 1/2 size of usa

Question 15

How many states do Africa has

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Africa has 54 recognised states including island republic off its coasts

Question 16

Are most countris in Africa multi-lingual

Answer 16

TrUE

Question 17

What countries in Africa aren’t multi-lingual

Answer 17

WE HAVE SOMALIA SWAZILAND LESOTHO BOTSWANNA

Question 18

HOW MANY LANGUAGES TO NIGERIA HAS

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OVER 500 languages

Question 19

how many language do kenya has

Answer 19

100 languages

Question 20

Why is africa called CRADLE OF HUMANITY

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Africa is the cradle of humanity; the first humans (homo sapiens) lived on African soil.

Question 21

ALI MAZRUI’S VIEW OF AFRICA

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“Africa is the first habitat of man but it is the last to be made habitable; Africans are not the most brutalized of all people but probably the most humiliated in modern history; African societies are not the closest to the West culturally but have been experiencing the most rapid pace of westernization; Africa is not the poorest of all the regions of the world in resources but it is the least developed of the inhabited continents; Africa is not the smallest of the continents but it is probably the most fragmented; and Africa is the most central of all continents in geographical location, but politically and to some extent militarily, it may be the most marginal.”
Ali Mazrui, The African Condition: A Political Prognosis London : (Heinemann, 1980) pp. 1-3

Question 22

THE MOST FRAGMENTED

Answer 22

. Africa not the smallest of continents but is probably the most fragmented; [Asia = 49 states and S-America = 12]

Question 23

BERLIN CONFERENCE

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1884-1885

Question 24

BERLIN CONFERENCE

Answer 24

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of European powers in Berlin, Germany, during the New Imperialism period. The goal of the conference was to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa. exploitation of Africa’s resources.