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2222 Facts About Africa
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2222 FACTS ABOUT AFRICA (A Compilation of Some Rare Facts on the Continent)
SUMMARY - This Reference book, as compiled by the Author, contains some Confounding, Astounding, Amazing, Astonishing, Striking, Mind- blowing and ‘Never-heard-before’ Facts you did not know about the African Continent, the Cradle and origin of Human Race.
The Author compiled these facts through the African Continuum: from Evolution period to Medieval period, Pre and Post -Historical period, Period of encounter with Europeans (period of Trades - Trans Saharan, Trans Atlantic Slave Trades), Colonial period, Independence and Post Colonial period, the present and to the future.
Review the following facts and identify those you might have known before! I’m sure 80 - 100% will be new to you!
1. Over 1 Million Europeans were captured and sold as slaves to Africa (North) between 1530 and 1780
2. Africa would have colonized America before the British - Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published on this sometime around 1342. In the tenth chapter of his book, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in 1312. This mariner king is not named by Al-Umari, but modern writers identify him as Mansa Abubakari II.
3. Africa pioneered Human Heart Transplant in the world - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, performed the first human heart transplant in the world in 1967. He was also the first to do a "piggyback" transplant in 1971, and he was the first to do a heart-lung transplant.
4. Autopsies and caesarean operations were routinely and effectively carried out by surgeons in pre-colonial Uganda -. The surgeons routinely used antiseptics, anaesthetics and cautery iron. Commenting on a Ugandan caesarean operation that appeared in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1884, one author wrote: “The whole conduct of the operation . . . suggests a skilled long-practiced surgical team at work conducting a well-tried and familiar operation with smooth efficiency.”
5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The oldest surviving work about mathematics was written by the ancient Egyptian scribe Ahmes around 1650 B.C. - It was found on the Rhine Mathematical Papyrus, it is titled “The Entrance into the Knowledge of All Existing Things and All Obscure Secrets.”
6. World’s oldest University is located in Africa.- The University in Fes in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is acclaimed to be the oldest university in the world.
7. Africa used Cheques prior to 951 AD - Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
8. Africa (Ethiopia) minted its own coins over 1,500 years ago - One scholar wrote that: “Almost no other contemporary state anywhere in the world could issue in gold, a statement of sovereignty achieved only by Rome, Persia, and the Kushan kingdom in northern India at the time.”
9. Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth - even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë.
10. The Wodaabe people do not name their children until they reach twelve years old.
11. Some people blamed the sinking of the Titanic on a mummified Egyptian priestess the doomed ship was transporting.
Enrich your knowledge of Africa… More revealing facts await you…
Buy the book, 2222 FACTS ABOUT AFRICA here
Play the Game/Challenge on Africa on www.knowafricachallenge.com
… Other emerging facts available…Its knowledge enriching!!!!!!!
SUMMARY - This Reference book, as compiled by the Author, contains some Confounding, Astounding, Amazing, Astonishing, Striking, Mind- blowing and ‘Never-heard-before’ Facts you did not know about the African Continent, the Cradle and origin of Human Race.
The Author compiled these facts through the African Continuum: from Evolution period to Medieval period, Pre and Post -Historical period, Period of encounter with Europeans (period of Trades - Trans Saharan, Trans Atlantic Slave Trades), Colonial period, Independence and Post Colonial period, the present and to the future.
Review the following facts and identify those you might have known before! I’m sure 80 - 100% will be new to you!
1. Over 1 Million Europeans were captured and sold as slaves to Africa (North) between 1530 and 1780
2. Africa would have colonized America before the British - Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published on this sometime around 1342. In the tenth chapter of his book, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in 1312. This mariner king is not named by Al-Umari, but modern writers identify him as Mansa Abubakari II.
3. Africa pioneered Human Heart Transplant in the world - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, performed the first human heart transplant in the world in 1967. He was also the first to do a "piggyback" transplant in 1971, and he was the first to do a heart-lung transplant.
4. Autopsies and caesarean operations were routinely and effectively carried out by surgeons in pre-colonial Uganda -. The surgeons routinely used antiseptics, anaesthetics and cautery iron. Commenting on a Ugandan caesarean operation that appeared in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1884, one author wrote: “The whole conduct of the operation . . . suggests a skilled long-practiced surgical team at work conducting a well-tried and familiar operation with smooth efficiency.”
5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The oldest surviving work about mathematics was written by the ancient Egyptian scribe Ahmes around 1650 B.C. - It was found on the Rhine Mathematical Papyrus, it is titled “The Entrance into the Knowledge of All Existing Things and All Obscure Secrets.”
6. World’s oldest University is located in Africa.- The University in Fes in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is acclaimed to be the oldest university in the world.
7. Africa used Cheques prior to 951 AD - Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
8. Africa (Ethiopia) minted its own coins over 1,500 years ago - One scholar wrote that: “Almost no other contemporary state anywhere in the world could issue in gold, a statement of sovereignty achieved only by Rome, Persia, and the Kushan kingdom in northern India at the time.”
9. Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth - even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë.
10. The Wodaabe people do not name their children until they reach twelve years old.
11. Some people blamed the sinking of the Titanic on a mummified Egyptian priestess the doomed ship was transporting.
Enrich your knowledge of Africa… More revealing facts await you…
Buy the book, 2222 FACTS ABOUT AFRICA here
Play the Game/Challenge on Africa on www.knowafricachallenge.com
… Other emerging facts available…Its knowledge enriching!!!!!!!
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