I saw this post at the FP www.nairaland.com/1362564/10-things-ghanaians-know-nigerians , so I decided to create my own.

Africa is the most populous and the only black continent. Despite the delayed development in the continent, Africa is an interesting continent to visit and in it abounds lots of talents. There are a lot of known and interesting information but there are much more unknown facts about Africa that are worth mentioning.

1. Second Largest Continent
Africa is the second largest continent in the world. The second largest in both land mass and population. It covers about a fifth of the earth’s total land area. The land mass is about 30.2 million km (11.7 million sq mi) and this includes adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth’s total surface area.

2. Africa Was Once Joined To Other Continents
One interesting fact about Africa that will amaze you is that long before humans were around (the early Mesozoic Era), Africa was joined to the other continents in a massive continent called Pangaea. Over millions of years this huge continent broke apart shaping the world landscape as we know it today in what has been referred to the continental drift. This was at first a speculation and was first put proposed by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. Later on, the concept was independently (and more fully) developed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener and the theory of continental drift was superseded by the theory of plate tectonics, which builds upon the previous continental drift and better explains the former concept.
3. Africa is The Home of the Human Species

Another interesting fact about Africa is that according to information provided by the Human
Origins, early humans first migrated out of Africa
into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.8
million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, between 1.5 million and 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later. For instance, people first came to Australia probably within the past 60,000 years and to the Americas within the past 30,000 years or so. The beginnings of agriculture and the rise of the first civilizations occurred within the past 12,000 years.

Source: www.answersafrica.com/10-interesting-facts-about-africa.html

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I guess this solves a little of the reason why there are whites. The write-up to me suggests that human beings originated from africa. If it is so, that means those that travel faaaaaar got the change in complexion from the change in climate. Nice one.
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Nice one. I read about the Continental drift on Microsoft Encarta. And that all the continents will join back, millions of years ahead...