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The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2]
East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west.
Two Tahitian Women (1899) by Paul Gauguin. The word "topless" usually refers to a woman whose breasts, including her areolas and nipples, are exposed to public view. It can describe a woman who appears, poses, or performs with her breasts exposed, such as a "topless model" or "topless dancer", or to an activity undertaken while not wearing a top, such as "topless sunbathing".
The African Games, known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa and the Association of African Sports Confederation.
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [47] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans.
Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman).
The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion.It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt.
Giant East African Snail. There are large gaps in human knowledge about African invertebrates. East Africa has a rich coral fauna [12] with about 400 known species. More than 400 species of Echinoderms and 500 species of Bryozoa live there too, [13] as well as one Cubozoan species (Carybdea alata).