Africa: interesting facts

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Hyperinflation here reached a year-on-year figure of 89.7 sextillion % in 2008.

Multi-millionaire president Jacob Zuma claimed that he had to sell his hats and socks to pay his legal fees.

This country was the home of Idi Amin. In 2023, a 110-year-old here was arrested for murdering his wife, 109, for denying him sex.

Young men of the Hamar tribe, in this country of 120 million, undergo a ritual where they are naked, smeared with dung and have to jump from a running bull.

The smallest country on the continent, it is majority Muslim. Citizens here vote by dropping a marble into a hole in the ground.

Africa's least-corrupt country, formerly called Bechuanaland, it is the world's biggest diamond producer measured by value.

This copper-producing nation has a hotel where elephants stroll around inside the building.

The main export of this landlocked Saharan country is radioactive chemicals.

In Africa this is the only one-party state, and only country to be a have no privately-owned news media. Its name comes from the Greek for "red".

The world's oldest known mine (41,000 BC) was in this small landlocked nation, which is also the birthplace of actor Richard E Grant.

This small, narrow country is famous for footballer Emmanuel Adebayor. Less famous is the male pastor who wears high heels when preaching.

This country's war, thought to be the world's worst since WW2, caused around 6 million deaths between 1998–2008.

The Mundari tribe of this country bathe in cow urine. It was formerly part of Sudan and its currency is the pound.

There is a gulf named after this country, which contains half the world's aluminium ore (bauxite).

Ryan Giggs' grandfather was from this nation, whose capital is Freetown.

The Barbie film was banned in this country, which is the largest on the continent.

The name of this country on the Niger river comes from the Bambara word for hippopotamus. Its languages include Xaasongaxango.

The planetoid 229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is named after a mythical aardvark girl from this sparse, coastal desert nation.

Africa's lowest point is in this small state on the Gulf of Aden; its biggest exports are sheep and goats.

An Italian called de Brazza played a major role in this equatorial nation's history.

15,000 troops from this large central Saharan country fought on the Allied side in WW2.

The world's largest frog (up to 33cm long) can be found in this country, whose largest city is Bata.

A lake occupies a third of the area of this narrow country, whose primary export is tobacco.

Many players from this football hotbed have camped in graveyards on the eve of a big game, due to a superstition that it will bring them luck.

Portugal striker Eusebio was born in this country, whose languages include Xichangana, Xitswa and Xironga.

Formerly known as the Gold Coast, this became the first sub-Saharan nation to declare independence from European colonisation.

In 2001, many Zanzibaris refused to sleep in their own houses for fear of being sexually molested by a ghost.

Previously led by the self-styled Colonel Gaddafi, this nation has more (hot) desert than any other country in the world.

In 2023, a wedding in Benin City was cancelled after it transpired that the groom was already married, with seven children.

A man in this mountainous central country locked himself in for 55 years due to his fear of women.

This Portuguese-speaking southern country has an endemic bird called the golden-backed bishop.

This mountainous southern nation has the world's highest suicide rate.

This country won the 2024 African Nations Cup. Its Senufo people have a ritual where dead elders are buried under the floors of their homes.

In 2017 in this country (formerly Dahomey) a pastor of the Zangbeto brotherhood banned some worshippers who he said stole a chicken from him for a ritual purpose.

Roman Emperor Aemilianus was from this far northern country, then known as Ifriqiya ("Africa").

In 1991, the government was overthrown by warring clans and the country descended into anarchy and chaos.

Omar Bongo, president of this country on the equator, was the world's longest-ruling non-royal leader.

A man in Koudougou drives his moped around by lying on it, with no helmet, and steering it with his feet.

This western Saharan nation was the last country to abolish slavery, in 1981.

Only 14% of this small country's population speak the official language, Portuguese.

In 2021, a man from this ancient country swallowed a mobile phone and waited 6 months before getting it surgically removed from his stomach.

This country is noted for its motor car rally. Its football team, and Norway's, are the only two countries Brazil have played but never beaten.

This north-western nation will co-host the 2030 World Cup.

This small, landlocked Rift Valley country is the poorest in the world.

Ex-president Charles Taylor was given 50 years in jail for the atrocities of the 1989-2003 civil wars.

This is the continent's third-largest country. A former British colony, it has a population of 44 million.

Compasses here can be thrown off by the Bangui magnetic anomaly.

A fake lawyer in this eastern equatorial nation claimed in 2023 to have won 26 court cases.

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