Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree. That makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad. Cocoa production is a major industry worldwide due to the love for chocolate cocoa powder and other products. The majority of cocoa is produced in West Africa, with Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana being the two largest producers. Other significant…
This is a continuation of the data visualization of Official Languages in Africa titled, Official Languages in Africa – An Analysis. It was identified that there are 38 different official languages across Africa and the major official languages in Africa are English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Swahili. 💡 Multilingualism in Africa – Analysis Despite…
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart – Nelson Mandela. Africa is a diverse continent with over 1.2 billion people and home to more than 2,000 different languages spoken, constituting approximately one-third of…
Ease of Doing Business Score for African Countries The ease of doing business (EODB) score by the World Bank, measures the economy of a country’s performance in relation to regulatory best practice across a sample of 41 indicators for 10 Doing Business topics (now 11) included in the aggregate ranking. These topics are:…
African Coaches At FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ African teams have participated in previous World Cup tournaments with 29 foreign coaches; 14 of these coaches are from France (the highest foreign appearance). This number represents the coach per tournament even if they coached African national teams 2 or more times. No country has…
Note: This is a tentative update to our 2020 analysis on ASUU Strike namely – ASUU Strikes Since Inception and ASUU Strikes Since Inception (II). Assuming that one academic session is 9 months, the 2020 strike was the longest in Nigeria’s history since ASUU’s formation. The 2022 ASUU strike is at the moment,…
The CBN Governors since Establishment The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was established in 1958. Roy Fenton was the first governor and only foreigner (Briton) to be the Governor. Abdulkadir Ahmed has the record number of days spent as CBN governor. He spent 11 years, 3 months and 2 days in office.…
Timeline of Social Media Bans and Outages Since the late 2000s when social media apps became popular within African countries, some have been restricted or banned. Mali, Egypt, Uganda and Chad are African countries that have banned or frequently restricted social media apps within the last decade. The longest bans/restrictions have been…
Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) were introduced in the 1980s with the advent of the internet. With .gov (United States) registered in 1985, there were some initial set of TLDs for countries such as .us, .uk and .il. As many countries began to make use of these TLDs, the domain names, which are…
With the sourcing for energy and international conflicts within nations and alliances, ten countries have the world’s largest proved natural gas reserves namely Russia, Iran, Qatar, United States, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, China, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nigeria and Venezuela. These countries have at least 200tcf (trillion cubic feet) of proved natural gas…