Eastern Africa
What is the official currency of Burundi?
The Burundian Franc (BIF)
What is the most populous country in Africa?
Nigeria
240 million people
Which is the largest country in Africa by land area?
Algeria
What is the smallest country in Southern Africa by area?
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
What is the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)?
Kinshasa.
Which city serves as the headquarters of the African Union?
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Which river, one of West Africa's longest, flows through Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria before emptying into the Atlantic?
The Niger River.
It is the third-longest river in Africa.
What country won the last AFCON tournament?
Morocco.
Which country in Southern Africa is completely surrounded by South Africa on all sides?
Lesotho.
The Congo River is the second-longest river in Africa. Through which country does the majority of it flow?
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Lake Victoria is shared by three East African countries. Name them.
Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
It is the largest lake in Africa and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.
Who is the president of Ghana?
John Dramani Mahama.
Regional Economic Powerhouse
Nigeria - West
South Africa - South
Kenya - East
? - North
Egypt.
The Victoria Falls, one of the world's largest waterfalls, forms a natural border between which two countries?
Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The falls are known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya — 'the smoke that thunders.'
Which Central African country has Yaoundé as its capital and Douala as its largest city?
Cameroon.
Douala is the economic hub and main port, while Yaoundé serves as the political and administrative capital.
The recently-completed dam in Ethiopia is called?
Mention 3 countries it runs through.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt.
ECOWAS, the regional bloc of West African states, was established in 1975. In which city was the founding treaty signed?
Lagos, Nigeria.
ECOWAS now has its headquarters in Abuja.
What is the capital city of Libya?
Tripoli.
Who scored the first goal (for South Africa) at the 2010 World Cup?
Siphiwe Tshabalala.
There are 11 official members of the Economic Community of Central African States.
Rwanda is one of these 11. Yes or No?
Yes.
Core ECCAS members include: DRC, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Chad, Angola, Burundi, and Rwanda.
What year was President Kagame born?
1957.
The ancient Mali Empire, which peaked in the 14th century, derived enormous wealth from controlling the trans-Saharan trade in two commodities. Name them.
Gold and Salt.
The empire's strategic position between gold-producing regions of the south and salt mines of the Sahara made it one of the wealthiest in the medieval world.
Which ancient North African city, located in modern-day Tunisia, was the great rival of Rome and was ultimately destroyed in 146 BCE?
Carthage.
South Africa has three capital cities serving different branches of government. Name them.
Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.
What currency does Angola use?
Angolan Kwanza.