This document provides information about various topics related to Africa, including its education system, wildlife, climate, tallest mountain, culture and arts, rainforests, languages and population, desertification and water issues, and economic conditions. It discusses how the education system has shifted from preparing youth for adulthood to prioritizing education, and details Africa's biodiversity including over 300 mammal and 800 bird species in South Africa. The climate varies by latitude and proximity to the equator. Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest peak. Traditional African music incorporates drums and other instruments, while masks were important in cultural rituals. Deforestation threatens rainforests. The population speaks many languages and is over 1 billion. Desertification and

1. All about Africa
By: Antonio Felix

2. Africa’s countries

3. Education and school system in Africa
• The boys and girls are
taught separately.
• They’re in school from
January to December.
• The school was based
on the youth becoming
adults.
• Over the years the
schools have become
more about education.

4. Africa’s Wildlife
• South Africa has a large
variety of wildlife
snakes, birds, plain
animals, and predators.
• The country has 299
species of mammals
and 858 species of
birds.

5. Africa’s Climate
• The climate is influenced
by its latitude or how far
to the north or south of
the equator lays.
• The regions nearest the
equator receive year-
round while the north
and south experiences
short dry winters and a
lower average annual
amount of rainfall.

6. Tallest mountain in Africa
• Mt. Kilimanjaro is the
highest mountain in
Africa standing at 5,895
meters above sea level.
• It consist of three
peaks, Shira, Kibo, and
Mawenzi with Uhuru
peak being the highest
on the Kibo crater rim.

7. Africa’s culture, art, and music
• Africa’s music uses drums,
guitars, likembes (thumb
pianos), strung bows,
trumpets, and
xylophones.
• A great variety of masks
from different materials
was worn with elaborate
costumes and mimicked
the human or activities of
nature and forces in the
different seasons.

8. African rainforest
• Home to half of the
continent’s animal
species, Africa’s vast
rainforest are falling
silent.
• Deforestation, road
construction and slash-
and-burn farming have
already wiped out roughly
about 90 percent of the
West Africa’s rainforest.

9. Africa’s language and population
• Afrikaans, Arabic,
English, French,
Portuguese, Spanish,
Swahili, and other
languages.
• Population
1,032,532,974

10. Desertification and Clean water
• Parts of coastal Africa south of
the Sahara are experiencing
serious desertification
problems as a result of
mismanagement of natural
resources such as mangrove
forests.
• Often forces those living in
water deprived regions to turn
to unsafe water resources,
which then contributes to
waterborne disease including
malaria, typhoid fever, cholera,
dysentery, and diarrhea and
can lead to diseases such as
trachoma, plague, and typhus.

11. Five facts about Africa
• The Nile is the longest river in the
world flowing through Uganda,
Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt.
• The world’s largest desert the
Sahara is located in Africa.
• Africa is home of the human
species, which developed there
about 5 million years ago.
• Africa is the second largest
continent in the world.
• More people are killed in Africa
by crocodiles than by lions.

12. Economic conditions in Africa
• The economy of Africa
consist of trade,
industry, agricultural,
and, human resources.
• Africa is a resource-rich
continent but many
African people are poor.

13. “Call to Action”
• Something that people
can do to help the
people is,
• Raise awareness, adopt
a child, give away
clothes, and food

14. Reflection
• What I learned about
Africa is the way there
climate is.
• Also I learned about
there education, there
wildlife, the tallest
mountain in Africa, and
the population in Africa.