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unusual facts about Central Africa



2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

Déby’s plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad.

African philosophy

Many Central African philosophical traditions before the Bantu migration into southern Central Africa have been identified as a uniting characteristic of many Nilotic and Sudanic peoples, ultimately giving rise to the distinctive worldviews identified in the conceptions of time, the creation of the world, human nature, and the proper relationship between mankind and nature prevalent in Dinka mythology, Maasai mythology and similar traditions.

Aly Oury

Like most villages in the Fouta, Aly Oury is an area of high emigration with the main destinations being: Dakar region, Casamance natural region, West and Central Africa, Western Europe, and the United States.

EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations

The research takes place within the framework of three research programmes: European Affairs (dealing with European integration), Europe in the world (dealing with Europe’s role in international relations) and Africa (focusing mostly on Sub-Saharan and Central Africa).

Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt

She conducted pioneering research in Southern Africa (among the Venda, Tsonga, Shona, Lozi, Bushmen), Central (among the Gbaya) and Kenya (among the Maasai, Samburu, El Molo, Rendille and unidentified hominids), which led her to develop the project "Totemic Geography of Africa "(TGA).

Kenya Revenue Authority

The K.R.A. headquarters are the principal occupant of the Times Tower, the tallest building in East and Central Africa.

Ocean Paradise Diamond

The Ocean Paradise is the second and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (the first being the Ocean Dream Diamond owned by the Cora Diamond Corp., found in Central Africa), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Piper guineense

Though known in Europe during the Middle Ages (it was a common spice in Rouen and Dieppe in 14th Century France), these days, its use is marginalized to West and Central Africa.

Stairs Expedition to Katanga

The Stairs Expedition to Katanga of 1891−1892 led by Captain William Stairs was the winner in a race between two imperial powers to claim Katanga, a vast mineral-rich territory in Central Africa for colonization, during which a local chief, (Mwenda Msiri) was killed.


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African Small White

Dixeia doxo, a butterfly endemic to Africa's east coast and large parts of central Africa

Aloe excelsa

It is found over a relatively small area of south-central Africa from the Magato mountains in Limpopo province of South Africa at its southern limit northwards along the southern side of the central watershed of Zimbabwe and extending into hilly locations on the south side of the Zambezi river in Mozambique, with two outlying populations forming its northern limits around Mulanje mountain in Malawi and in the Kafue Gorge just across the Zambezi river in Zambia.

Bishan Park

A few surprise visitors have already been spotted including Zanzibar Red Bishop, a native to Africa, the Spotted Wood Owl, native to the jungle forest in Indonesia, Long-tailed Parakeet, native in the Andaman islands and the Orange-cheeked Waxbill, native to western and central Africa.

Bolenge

Henry Morton Stanley reputedly stopped at Bolenge during his epic voyage across the central Africa during the 19th century.

Cantino planisphere

Other illustrations include a lion-shaped mountain representing the Sierra Leone mountain range, the Alexandria lighthouse (laid horizontal), the mythical Mountains of the Moon (legendary source of the Nile River) in central Africa, and either the Table Mountain or Drakensberg range in South Africa.

Christianity in Malawi

Livingstone's famous appeal, made at a great meeting in the Senate House at Cambridge on December 4, 1857 led to the founding of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), and the first missionary expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa arrived in Malawi in 1861.

Clapperton

Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827), Scottish traveller and explorer of West and Central Africa

Colleen Opoku Amuaben

Dr. (Mrs.) Colleen Helena Opoku Amuaben is the General Overseer of Precious Seed Chapel International with fifteen branches in Central Africa – Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa and Almeria, Spain and Ghana, with the headquarters situated in Tema and is the founder of Save Them Young Mission Incorporated.

Commelina orchidophylla

Commelina sphaerorhizoma is found in south-central Africa and is currently known only from the southerneastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, specifically in Haut-Katanga District around the town of Gombela and in the Kundelungu National Park.

Congo Free State propaganda war

Rubber vines grew throughout central Africa; but harvesting rubber from a vine was more difficult than that from a tree.

Copperbelt

The discovery of copper in Zambia by the Western world is owed partly to the celebrated American scout Frederick Russell Burnham, who in 1895 led and oversaw the massive Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co. expedition which established that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.

Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories

:In the 1999 version of his OPV AIDS hypothesis, Edward Hooper proposed that early batches of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) grown in cultures of chimpanzee kidney cells, infected with a chimpanzee virus, were the original source of HIV-1 in Central Africa.

Etosha pan

Mopane trees are common throughout south-central Africa, and host the mopane worm, which is the larval form of the moth Gonimbrasia belina, and an important source of protein for rural communities.

Eyralpenus meinhofi

Eyralpenus (Pareyralpenus) meinhofi (Bartel, 1903) is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Arctiidae from the East and Central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia Goodger, Watson, 1995, as meinhofi, Zambia, Angola, Zaire Goodger, Watson, 1995, as metaxantha; Malawi Goodger, Watson, 1995 and Dubatolov, 2009, as melanocera; Zaire Kiriakoff, 1965, as melanocera; Zimbabwe Dubatolov, 2011.

Fork-tailed Drongo

The subspecies D. a. modestus (Príncipe) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus (Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, (Hartlaub, 1849).

Friends of Peoples Close to Nature

Africa: the Great Lakes Twa, Bahrwa, Baka, Aka and Bambuti of central Africa (commonly referred to as Pygmees), the Hadzabe, Hai//om, !Kung and Gǀwi of South Africa (commonly referred to as Bushmen)

Gatare, Rwanda

Gatare is a town of Rwanda, Central Africa, capital of the homonymous sector in the district of Nyamagabe (former Gikongoro).

Gerhard Kubik

Kubik's topics are music and dance, oral traditions and traditional systems of education, the extension of African culture to the Americas (especially Brazil) and the linguistics of the Bantu languages of central Africa.

Globulostylis

Globulostylis has 8 species in Central Africa, all endemic to the Lower Guinean forests, except G. uncinula, which also occurs in the Congolian forests.

Hartlaub's Duck

Hartlaub's Duck is resident in equatorial West and Central Africa, from Guinea and Sierra Leone east through Nigeria to Sudan, and south to Gabon, Congo and Zaire.

Havelock North

Dr Robert William Felkin (1853–1926), medical missionary, ceremonial magician, author on Uganda and Central Africa, explorer, and early anthropologist

Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen

He sailed around the world with Bougainville, "fought tigers bare-handed" in Central Africa and reportedly seduced the Queen of Tahiti.

Luapula Province border dispute

Following the 1889 Berlin conference and the ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was considerable interest by the Belgians, the Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa to secure the area that covered the 4 Great Lakes namely, Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

Lutheran Church of Central Africa

The Lutheran Church of Central Africa was established by Lutheran missionaries from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Mpezeni

Mpezeni (also spelt Mpeseni) (1830–1900) was warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa, based in what is now the Chipata District of Zambia, at a time when the British South Africa Company (BSAC) of Cecil Rhodes was trying to take possession of the territory for the British Empire.

Mungo people

Makossa, a popular musical style in West and Central Africa, originated with the Duala around this same time.

Night Flyer

Night Flyer, popular name for an Olitiau, a gigantic humanoid cryptid bat hypothesized to exist in Central Africa

Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo

Melastomataceae is given an accurate circumscription, as is Berberidaceae, despite this family not occurring in central Africa.

Republic of Cabinda

Cabinda is a territory of 7,284 square kilometres in west central Africa with a population of 264,584 in 2006 (estimate), divided between four municipalities of Belize (population: 17,693), Buco Zau (40,019), Cabinda (185,924) and Cacongo (20,948).

Reverence for Life

He also used his hospital in Lambaréné in Gabon (Central Africa) to demonstrate this philosophy in practice.

Stanley Portal Hyatt

Stanley and his brothers had started from Central Africa in a penniless condition, but by lecturing and journalism in Durban, they got to Mauritius, from which they wore exported as distressed British subjects.

The Zombie Survival Guide

The oldest entry is 60,000 BC, in Katanda, Central Africa, although the author expresses doubt about its validity.

University of Yaoundé

The university was selected as the Central Africa node for the post-graduate Pan-African University, with an institute to study social and human sciences and governance.

Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Unemployment and urbanization throughout Central Africa have exacerbated the problem further by turning cities like the urban sprawl of Kinshasa into the prime market for bushmeat.

Xymalos

Xymalos is an Afromontane endemic, and can be found from 900–2700 meters elevation in the highlands of Eastern Africa from Sudan to South Africa, as well as on Mount Cameroon and Bioko in west-central Africa.