Africa

Fact or Fiction?

Question 1 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is a country, not a continent

Question 2 – Answer Fact or Fiction

There are 47 countries in Africa

Question 3 – Answer Fact or Fiction

It is too hot and dry to grow crops

Question 4 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is poor in natural resources

Question 5 – Answer Fact or Fiction

African poverty is caused more by government corruption than by

history

Question 6 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Civil wars are widespread across Africa

Question 7 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is void of technology

Question 8 – Answer Fact or Fiction

You can find giraffes and elephants in most African

countries

Question 9 – Answer Fact or Fiction

More Africans live in urban areas than in rural areas

Question 10 – Answer Fact or Fiction

British colonial occupation of African countries brought more

benefits than problems

Ready for the answers?

Question 1 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is a country, not a continent

Fiction – It’s the 2

nd largest continent on

the planet!

Question 2 – Answer Fact or Fiction

There are 47 countries in Africa

Fiction – There are 58 very diverse

(different) African nations

Question 3 – Answer Fact or Fiction

It is too hot and dry to grow crops

Fiction – Africa has some of th

e most

fertile soils and highest ra

infall globally!

Question 4 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is poor in natural resources

Fiction – It is one of th

e most resource

rich continents on the planet

Question 5 – Answer Fact or Fiction

African poverty is caused more by government corruption than by

historyFiction – A

frica’s colonial past locked it

into political & economic weakness and

made it ‘dependent’ o

n wealthier

countries

Question 6 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Civil wars are widespread across Africa

Fiction – There are only three ‘m

ajor

wars’ currently fought in Africa.

Somalia, North/South Sudan and

Mali

Question 7 – Answer Fact or Fiction

Africa is void of technology

Fiction – The number of m

obile phone

subscriptions is currently exploding

Question 8 – Answer Fact or Fiction

You can find giraffes and elephants in most African

countriesFiction – T

hese animals are found mostly

found in wetter parts of Africa and not in

the drier North and South

Question 9 – Answer Fact or Fiction

More Africans live in urban areas than in rural areas

Fiction – Only 1/3

rd of Africans live in

urban areas

Question 10 – Answer Fact or Fiction

British colonial occupation of African countries brought more

benefits than problemsFiction – B

ritish rule caused more long

term problems than benefits