KNOW WHERE YOUR FROM....AFRICA

• There are approximately 1,500 languages spoken in Africa.

•  Not everyone in Africa has HIV/AIDS. I get strange looks when I tell people my girlfriend is Malian. I’m often asked: “aren’t you worried about AIDS?” There are many African countries still struggling with HIV/AIDS. This is true. But the continent is not being ravaged by the disease as some people seem to think. The HIV/AIDS rate is 1.7% in Mali. It is 3% in Washington, DC, the city I was living in before traveling to West Africa. 
•   The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.
•  While Africa makes up about 16% of the world’s population, fully one quarter of the world’s languages are spoken only in Africa.
• Africa is the world’s second driest continent (after Australia).
• Africa has approximately 30% of the earth’s remaining mineral resources.
• Nigeria is fourth largest oil exporter in the world, and Africa’s biggest oil producer with about 2.2 million barrels produced every day. Top 10 oil producers in order of total exports: Nigeria, Algeria, Angola, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Gabon, South Africa.
• The continent has the largest reserves of precious metals with over 40% of the gold reserves, over 60% of the cobalt, and 90% of the platinum reserves.
• Over 55% of Africa’s labour force working in food production with vast areas of arable and pastoral lands supporting agricultural economies.
• Over 90% of soils are unsuitable for agriculture and only 0.25% has moderate to low potential for sustainable farming.
• Rainfall variability is very high – from 0 mm/year in the Sahara to 9,500 mm/year near Mount Cameroon.
• Over 240 million Africans suffer from chronic undernourishment.
• Water scarcity impacts the lives of over 300 million Africans, of whom approximately 75% of Africans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Global warming is aggravating the situation.
• Limited groundwater represents only 15% of the continent’s total renewable water resources. New discoveries of groundwater reserves in large sedimentary basins in Libya, Algeria and Chad may slack Africa’s growing thirst for the next few decades…
• Productivity of about 65% of the continent’s agricultural lands has declined significantly with vast tracts of land have been degraded by erosion, poor land management practices, mining and pollution over the last 50 years.
• Some landscapes are estimated to lose over 50 metric tonnes of soil per hectare per year due to neglect and desertification.
• Over 30% of Africa’s pastural land and almost 20% of all forests and woodlands are classified as moderately- or heavily-degraded. 

So Africa have all these resources the most in the world but Africa is the poorest and un nurtured land SMFH Y?