North Africa
This North African country is famous for its ancient pyramids.
What is Egypt?
This country was the first in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957.
What is Ghana
This country was never colonized and is home to the ancient kingdom of Aksum.
What is Ethiopia?
This South African leader was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The flag of this Central African country has a blue field with a yellow star in the corner.
What Is Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?
This North African country flag has a red background with a green five-pointed star in the center.
What is Morocco?
This Nigerian artist, known as the African Giant won a Grammy in 2021 for his album Twice As Tall.
Burna boy
This language, a blend of Bantu and Arabic, developed along the East African coast.
What is Swahili?
This landlocked country is home to Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world.
What is Zimbabwe?
This Central African country was once a brutal personal colony of King Leopold II of Belgium.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
This is the biggest desert in North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This West African country is considered the birthplace of Jollof rice?
What is Senegal?
This East African country was the first in the world to have a majority of women in its national parliament.
What is Rwanda?
This system of racial segregation governed South Africa from 1948 to the 1990s.
What is Apartheid?
This small oil-rich Central African country has Malabo as its capital and is the only African country where Spanish is an official language.
What is Equatorial Guinea?
This city is the capital of Algeria.
What is Algiers?
From 1967 to 1970, this West African country faced a civil war when the southeastern region tried to secede and form the Republic of Biafra.
What is Nigeria?
This famous Kenyan leader became the country first president after independence from Britain in 1963.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
This Southern African country changed its name from Swaziland in 2018 to reflect its pre-colonial heritage.
What is Eswatini?
This Central African country borders Nigeria to the west and is known for its volcanic mountains and rainforests.
What is Cameroon?
This famous North African queen ruled Egypt and is remembered for her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This region had powerful empires like Ghana, Mali, and Songhai that controlled gold-salt trade routes.
What is the Sahel?
The Portuguese were expelled from this East African city-state by local Swahili-Arab forces in 1698.
What is Mombasa
In this Southern African country, Portuguese is the official language, a result of colonial influence.
What is Mozambique?
This Bantu language is widely spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is one of the country four national languages.
What is Lingala?