Africa is home to 54 sovereign nations.
Africa is the only continent in the world that occupies all four hemispheres; north, south, east and west.
Africa is large --- 20% of the earth's land is located in Africa.
Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa

Africa is the continent humans have existed on the longest, yet is the least developed.
Africa is divided into black and white (north of / south of the Sahara). White Africa is said to have a thousand-year-old tradition of culture... that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized in a word, savage.
Africa is a wreck not because it was hit by an asteroid, but, largely, because it was hit by Europe.
in Africa it is still yesterday. It will take millions of tomorrows to rectify what has been done here.
Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.