Huge project on Africa!?

Question

1. 3 serious problems facing africa today (list them please )
2. A famous person in the history of aafrica (lst a few names please)
3. 7 countries in africa and the main products of each

Answer 1

1-disease-aids/ebola, drugs-mj/meth/coke, war-civil conflicts/dictators, crime-car theft.
2-nelson mandella, shakka zulu
3-1)south africa-Gold, nonindustrial diamonds, mineral products
2)zambia-cotton, sugar, copper, colbalt
3)mali-cotton, gold
4)kenya-Tea, coffee, horticultural products, hides and skins, pyrethrum, pineapples, beer
5)egypt-Petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, vegetables and fruit, clothing and accessories, aluminum products
6)ethiopia-Ethiopia is also the 10th largest producer of livestock in the world. Other main export commodities are khat , gold, leather products and oilseeds
7)sudan-Currently oil is Sudan's main export

Answer 2

Problems:
- environmental denudation -- overfarming and climate change are turning previously liveable land into desert, e.g. in Ethiopia and Sudan. This has led to famine
- extreme poverty and extensive debt
- corruption within governments, e.g. Zimbabwe

Famous people: Nelson Mandela. Kwame Nkrumah

For countries in Africa, including all sorts of facts and figures, the best source is:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

The countries are:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

I'd suggest you select seven and look them up on the Worldbook

Answer 3

CAFOD have lots of excellent information about several countries where they make a great deal of difference to many lives. They have interactive games, films eetc. You can learn a lot in an enjoyable way and maybe you will be prompted to help buy a goat or cow or ?? for someone !!

Answer 4

Treat Africa like a continent and not a country. Geez!

Answer 5

Here's the best answer I can offer.....do your own research. You just might learn something that could change your life.

Answer 6

Go to InfoPlease.com