where in africa do we come from?
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Scientists are sure that Homo sapiens first evolved in Africa, and we know that every person alive today can trace their genetic ancestry to there. It has long been thought that we began in one single east or south African population, which eventually spread into Asia and Europe.
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South Africa is the name of one country located at the southern most tip of the African continent. Whereas West Africa is mostly a jungle and bordered by Sahara desert on the north.
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['Benin.', 'Burundi.', 'Comoros.', 'Congo.', 'Djibouti.', 'Egypt.', 'Ivory Coast.', 'Lesotho.']
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Great Britain got southern and northeastern Africa from Berlin. From 1880-1900 Britain gained control over or occupied what are now known as Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, northwestern Somalia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, and Malawi.
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The history of the Nguni people is captured in their oral tradition. They were a group of people who migrated from Egypt to the Great Lakes region of sub-equatorial Central/East Africa. They then followed the eastern part of southern Africa in their southward bound.
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East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography. ... Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan are members of the East African Community (EAC). The first five are also included in the African Great Lakes region.
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Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth.
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Africa, a continent so rich in resources yet its people have yet to do anything with them. ... But if it happens in Africa then that means the whole continent is a “lost cause.” Got it.
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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The most important thing to know — and we know you know this, but it must be said —is that Africa is not a country. ... It's so diverse because Africa is really, really big — about as big as the combined landmasses of China, the United States, India, Japan and much of Europe.
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['Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Sudan)', 'Basutoland (Lesotho)', 'Balleland (Benin)', 'Bechuanaland (Botswana)', 'British East Africa (Kenya)', 'British Somaliland (northern Somalia)', 'British Togoland (eastern Ghana)', 'British Cameroons (split between Nigeria and Cameroon)']
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The history of Nigeria can be traced to settlers trading across the middle East and Africa as early as 1100 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri, the Benin Empire, and the Oyo Empire.
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['Angola.', 'Burundi.', 'Cameroon.', 'Central African Republic.', 'Congo, Republic of.', "Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)", 'Democratic Republic of Congo.', 'French Guiana.']
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The continent of Africa is larger than the United States, China and Brazil combined. At 30.2 million square kilometers, its land mass covers 20.4 percent of the earth's total land area. The population of Africa numbers 1 billion, while the North American continent is home to 528 million souls.
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['Papua New Guinea.', 'Tanzania.', 'Democratic Republic of Congo.', 'Uganda.', 'Liberia.', 'Cameroon.', 'Togo.', 'South Africa.']
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The African pangolin species are native to 15 African countries dispersed throughout southern, central, and east Africa. S. temminckii is the only species found in southern and eastern Africa.
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PARIS – Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind's “ancestral homeland” yet discovered.