Citizen NewsNG 
Below are Twelve Amazing Facts about the Continent of Africa :
- Africa and Europe are separated by less than 9 miles at the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco.
- In South Africa you are legally allowed to attach flamethrowers to your car in order to deter car jacking.
- Timbuktu, Mali is home of one of the oldest universities in the world, established in 982 CE.
- The world’s biggest frog is found in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.
- The word “Crossword” in Kiswahili, a language spoken mainly by people in eastern and central Africa is “chemshebongo” which, when translated, means “boil brains”.
- The official title of Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”.
- People living in what is currently Swaziland were the world’s first miners.
- Mozambique native, Graca Machel, is the only women to have ever been first lady of two different countries (Mozambique and South Africa).
- Sudan has more than 200 pyramids, double the number found in Egypt.
- Almost half of the gold ever mined on Earth has come from a single place – Witwatersrand, South Africa.
- AND, that without the discovery of gold here, a little place called Johannesburg would probably never have been established.
- From 1977 to 2011, Libya was the only country in the world with only one colour for its flag, with no insignias, design or other details.
