The second largest and populous continent in the world is Africa while the first one is Asia. Africa covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface and 20% of total land area. The population of Africa is more than 1 billion in its 61 territories.

Visual art and architecture

One of the oldest existing representations of African art is their 82, 000-year- old beads created from Nassarius shell that were found in Aterian levels Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco.

Some other great architectures in Africa include:

• The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which is the world’s tallest structure for more than 4,000 years.
• The stone of Ruins in Great Zimbabwe
• The complexity of monolithic churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia

12 Great Places you must explore in Africa

• Abu Simbel in Egypt
• Mt Kilimanjaro
• Victoria Falls on the Zambia – Zimbabwe Border
• The Great Pyramids at Giza Egypt
• Valley of the Kings – Egypt
• Fish River Canyon in Namibia
• Sossusvlei in Namib Desert Namibia
• Wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara and Serengeti
• Karnak Temple Complex – Egypt
• Okavango Delta in Botswana
• The Virunga Mountains in the DRC/Rwanda/Uganda borders
• Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania