Find out all about Africa
with our 'about Africa' profile pages, everything you
need to know to enhance your volunteer work experience from
information and videos about the great
lakes of the Rift valley, to the major deserts, the Congo
Rainforest, the Maghreb, together with live images about Africa
with our extensive African webcams collection, and of course,
and extensive history of Africa together with photographs and
maps of the African continent.
On
this page we provide some data and information about
Africa. The graph right shows the average rainfall
across Africa. As can be quickly evidenced, the north of
Africa and in particular the Sahara Desert region sees
minimum annual rainfall together with the Horn of Africa
and the desert areas of south-west Africa. This reflects the
temperature of Africa chart (left).
Below is a world map
of human development, and, as can be easily seen, the
majority of Africa, apart from a few countries in the south
and north, all represent low human development when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access
to knowledge and the living standards of a country.
Why not kick off
your tour of our 'about Africa' pages by checking out the video
above, introducing some of the most prominent features in and
about Africa then explore some of the pages below to find out
more about Africa.
We've three
pages of articles so you can find out all about Africa!