Comments on: 10 interesting facts of africa

By: Edulliset Lennot

Edulliset Lennot — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:43:04 +0000

no mee naapuris ja ilontalos oikeestaa, aika paska paikka, itt en ainakaa tykänny.

By: Stace

Stace — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:22:08 +0000

@ Chrom: I think you’re missing something here. One-half mile per month is six miles per year. If anything, that’s a low estimate. Maybe you read it as one-half mile per day?

By: anonx

anonx — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:30:22 +0000

Warsai:

See the link. 53 states make up the African Union. Of course there are more states… into how many is Somalia now, and South Sudan may be the next official state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_State_of_the_African_Union

By: Warsai

Warsai — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:57:08 +0000

Wow…Only 54 states? Though there were more states…does it include Eritrea which is the newest state in Africa (19 years old on MaY 24th).

By: AmeleworQ

AmeleworQ — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:58:03 +0000

Amazon is the greatest/biggest i.e total volume of water, Nile is the longest. This might be the source of confusion

By: justme

justme — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:31:06 +0000

wow…. to #2 fact… thanks for sharing…

By: anonx

anonx — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:47:33 +0000

The Nile is in disputes. Add one more to the many: some now say the Amazon is longer if its agreed the mouth of the Amazon is frozen at the Andes Mountain. Poor Nile, ancient and mighty may be the only not in dispute….

By: Nightingale

Nightingale — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:26:07 +0000

Hmmmmm….. Interesting!

By: Nolawi

Nolawi — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:37:22 +0000

Number 9, except those of us from Ethiopia Egypt and Sudan.. everyone else thinks Amazon is the longest…

Dude its 4000miles

By: ep

ep — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:38:53 +0000

Interesting…
1. Doesn’t really surprise me because almost every time people keep telling me my accent is kind of Arabic.
2. First reaction is Wow, really … but then the comment says the Sudanese pyramids are smaller, steeper, and more recent than those to the north in Egypt..
3. ok ,they are heading to the evolution talk …
4. I give credit to Atse Tewodros.. Unfortunately, he is criticized by many these days …
5. I think the fact in Afar region would be different; may be opposite
6. I can think of Shells similar to current US Dollar and AMOLE CHEW as ETH Birr
7. that is very weird. Is that the same sport popular in India too?
8. My first question… what kind of transportation ?? Just ships?? Amistad is great movie to depict that…
9. That is elementary geography .. but seems logically confusing since we tend to measure the distance from TANA
10. other story i heard recently … gradual desertification of the Sahara started around 3400BC, around the time the time of Noah flood… creationists use that as evidence ..

By: Nolawi

Nolawi — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:45:36 +0000

@ Chrom:
i meant to say 2 1/2 a month

By: Gennet

Gennet — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:06:02 +0000

Thanks Nolawi,

very interesting information!

By: Chrom

Chrom — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:54:33 +0000

You will not find a confirmation on #10, this simply can not be true.
Are you saying that the desert should be growing by 50% every month.

The Saharan desert covers ~9,000,000 square kilometres,
Compared to the African continent covering a total of ~30,000,000 square kilometres, do the math, it would cover the entire continent within less than a year

Interesting list though, but stick with reliable sources