SHOCKING AND HARD-TO-BELIEVE FACTS

They are quite shocking and seemingly unbelievable but cannot be taken away from us except we give them away ourselves. How much are you aware about these facts abut Africa?

• Nigeria is the second largest FILM producer in the world after India? Even America's Hollywood cannot beat that.

• Africa has over 700 million MOBILE PHONES subscriptions; larger than Europe's 600 million as at the close of 2015.

• Africa holds 50% of the world's GOLD with over 32 of the 54 nations having commercial gold deposits.

• Kenya is the world's largest TEA exporter.

• With 10% of the world's oil reserves and less than 30% of the continent explored and 30 out of the 54 nations having oil reserves and 12 producing and exporting oil, it is a possibility that Africa will be the world's largest producers of OIL by 2020.

• Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer of COCOA through which we get chocolate products.

•  Nigeria having the highest percentage and exploring less than 25% o the continent, Africa has 7% of the world's GAS RESERVES estimated $14 Trillion cubic feet. 

• D.R Congo has 70% of the world's COLTAN, also known as "Tantalum" which is used to make capacitors in electronics, thereby enabling devices such as laptops and cell phones operate effectively. It is the reason we are enjoying technological advancements.

• Sudan is the world's largest producer of GUM ARABIC, providing as much as half of the world supply. Gum Arabic I a key ingredient in soft drinks syrups. This is what keeps drinks such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi uniformly suspended to avoid precipitation.

• Sierra Leone is the world's largest producer of RUTILE which is used in aerospace, automobiles, sports, an medicine, with its main uses as a paint pigment replacing Lead as the most common paint pigment used in paint manufacture.

• Africa has 90% of the world's PLATINUM deposits, led by South Africa with 80%. Platinum is used majorly in the medical and electrical field.

• Out of 54 Africa nations, 24 have deposits and 18 produce IRON ORE; led by South Africa, ranked 8th in the world. 99% of iron ore commercially used is for steel making.

• Namibia is the world's largest URANIUM producer; a nation having less than $15 billion economy. Uranium's major use in non-military capacity is in nuclear power plants to fuel the nuclear fission reactors.

We are not poor as a continent, we are only poorly managed. No nation no continent should look down on us except we look down on ourselves.

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