LITERATURE

-The total of preserved writings

belonging to a given language or people.

-form or expression, as distinguished, on

the one hand, from works merely
technical or erudite and, on the other,
from journalistic or short-lived writings.

AFRICA’S LANGUAGE
Swahili is the African language most widely recognised outside the
continent. The global presence of Swahili in radio broadcasting and
on the internet has no equal among sub-Saharan African
languages.
According to this school of thought, the Romans
discovered a land opposite the Mediterranean and
named it after the Berber tribe residing within the
Carnage area, presently referred to as Tunisia.
The tribe's name was Afri, and the Romans gave
the name Africa meaning the land of the Afri.

THE COUNTRIES OF AFRICA

COUNTRY POPULATION SUBREGION
1
Djibouti 988,000 Eastern 5 Togo 8,278,724
Africa Western Africa
2 Seychelles 98,347 Eastern 6 Sierra Leone 7,976,983
Africa Western Africa
3 DR Congo 89,561,403 Middle 7 Libya 6,871,292
Africa Northern Africa
4 Comoros 869,601 Eastern 8 Tanzania 59,734,218 Eastern
Africa Africa
9 South Africa 59,308,690 31 Gabon 2,225,734 Middle Africa
Southern Africa 32 Sao Tome & Principe 219,159
10 Cabo Verde 555,987 Middle Africa
Western Africa 33 Lesotho2,142,249 Southern Africa
11 Congo 5,518,087 Middle 34 Burkina Faso 20,903,273
Africa Western Africa
12 Kenya 53,771,296 Eastern Africa 35 Nigeria 206,139,589 Western Africa
13 Liberia 5,057,681 Western Africa 36 Mali 20,250,833 Western Africa
14 Central African Republic4,829,767 37 Guinea-Bissau 1,968,001
Middle Africa Western Africa
15 Mauritania 4,649,658 38 Malawi 19,129,952 Eastern Africa
Western Africa 39 Zambia 18,383,955 Eastern Africa
16 Uganda 45,741,007 Eastern Africa 40 Senegal 16,743,927 Western Africa
17 Algeria 43,851,044 Northern Africa 41 Chad 16,425,864 Middle Africa
18 Sudan 43,849,260 Northern Africa 42 Somalia15,893,222 Eastern Africa
19 Morocco 36,910,560 43 Zimbabwe 14,862,924 Eastern
Northern Africa Africa
20 Eritrea 3,546,421 Eastern Africa 44 Equatorial Guinea 1,402,985
21 Angola 32,866,272 Middle Africa Middle Africa
22 Mozambique 31,255,435 Eastern 45 Guinea 13,132,795 Western Africa
Africa 46 Rwanda12,952,218 Eastern Africa
23 Ghana 31,072,940 Western Africa 47 Mauritius 1,271,768 Eastern
Africa
24 Madagascar 27,691,018 Eastern
48 Benin 12,123,200 Western Africa
Africa
49 Burundi11,890,784 Eastern Africa
25 Cameroon 26,545,863 Middle
50 Tunisia 11,818,619 Northern Africa
Africa
51 Eswatini 1,160,164
26 Côte d'Ivoire 26,378,274
Southern Africa
Western Africa
52 Ethiopia 114,963,588 Eastern
27 Namibia 2,540,905
Africa
Southern Africa
53 South Sudan 11,193,725 Eastern
28 Niger 24,206,644 Western Africa
Africa
29 Gambia 2,416,668 Western Africa
54 Egypt 102,334,404 Northern Africa
30 Botswana 2,351,627
Southern Africa
 AFRICAN TRIBES
 The Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.
 The Himba of northwest Namibia.
 The Zulu of South Africa.
 The Bushman, San or Khoisan, of
Southern Africa.
 The Southern Ndebele tribe of South
Africa.
 The Samburu of Northern Kenya.