Big Brother Africa 3

Big Brother Africa 3 is the third series of an African Reality Television Show produced by Endemol, an international film and television distribution and production company based at Netherlands. Big Brother Africa, a reality show, was first aired in August 2008 and it covers 12 nations withing Africa, namely, Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The series portrays a contestant living in an isolated house in Johannesburg who tried to avoid being evicted by the viewers and the final contestant wins large amount of cash prize.





In every weekly show, the housemates nominate two other housemates for eviction in the diary room by giving justified and valid reasons. Moreover, every week , the viewers in the 12 countries vote to eliminate a housemate they do not like. Majority of the votes from any particular countries is counted to take the decision. Apart from the 12 countries, other countries in Africa also vote, which counts as 13th vote. Some of the nominees and winners from different countries include: Hazel Warren from Malawai, Latoya Lyakurwa from Tanzania, Lucille Naobes from Namibia, Mimi from Ghana, Morris Mugisha from Uganda, Munya from Zimbabwe, Ricco from Angola, Sheila from Kenya, Takondwa from Zambia, Tawana from Botswana, Thami from South Africa, and Uti from Nigeria.

Facts About Africa People of Africa

Africa is a continent that has one of the most diverse ethnic groups and people belonging to hundreds of different tribes that have their own languages and dialects. Bantu Language speaking people of Africa are one of the major ethnic groups who can be found in South, East and Central Africa. People in North Africa belong to main groups: Berber and Arabic speaking people. Before decolonization, Europeans could be found in almost all the parts of Africa. South Africa has the largest population of White Africans.





Bantu-speaking people, Nilotic groups, Pygmy people, indigenous Khoisan groups, Bushmen people from Kalahari Desert, Berbers, indigenous Egyptians, Semitic people, Tuareg nomadic people of Saharan Africa, Nubians, Nilo-Saharan, Amhara people, and Tigrayans are some of the native and indigenous peoples of africa. Apart from the native Africans, people of Africa also include an important minority of Afrikaners, Anglo-Africans, and Colored who constitute the largest European-Descended groups in Africa. As a result of British colonies and European colonialism, Africa also saw large communities of settlers from Asia and especially the Indian subcontinent.

Facts About Africa Colonialism in Africa

African continent is home to wide varieties of ethnic groups and people speaking hundreds of different languages and dialects. Colonization and Colonialism have been in existence in Africa for many centuries including rulers and peoples from Arab nations, European nations and Asia. Arabs from Asia arrived in Africa in the seventh century who brought along with them Islam and Arabic languages to Africa, North Africa in particular, which remains a predominantly Arab speaking nation. East Africa also has large population of Arab Muslims and Southwest Asian settlers.





Europeans are known to have their presence in Africa from Greek and Roman era. In 16th century, Portuguese and Dutch arrived in Africa and established trading posts and forts along the coasts between western and southern Africa. Today, a large population of descendants of Europeans, mainly Dutch, French and German can be found in South Africa. Furthermore, Portuguese people settled in Angola and Mozambique and Italians in Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia. A large presence of Britishers can be found in Rhodesia, South Africa and Kenya. Large communities of people from Indian origins can also be found in South Africa and other parts of Africa, who came to Africa as a result of European Colonialism and British Colonies.

Facts About Africa Diamonds in Africa

Facts About Africa Diamonds in Africa

World mines about 139 million carats (about 26,000 kg) of diamonds every year amounting to a value of around 9 billion US Dollars. Africa is the world's largest producer of diamonds, accounting for more than 50% of world's diamond production. The regions in Africa that produce maximum diamonds are Angola, Botswana and South Africa. Angola is also famous for its Civil War – Diamonds and the blood diamonds or conflict diamonds. Majority of the diamond mines are centered around South Central Africa in the countries such as Tanzania, South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Congo, Ghana and Namibia.

Some of the world's major diamond mines in Africa: Angola – Catoca Diamond Mine, Fucauma Diamond Mine, Luarcia Diamond Mine, Endiama National Diamond Mining Company; Botswana – Debswana (De Beers and Botswana Govt joint company), Orapa Diamond Mine, Damtshaa Diamond Wines; South Africa – Baken Diamond Mine, Venetia Diamond Mine, Kimberley Diamond Mine, Finsch Diamond Mine; Zimbabwe – Murowa Diamond Mine; Tanzania – Williamson Diamond Mine; Lesotho – Letseng Diamond Mine.



Facts About Africa Diamonds in Africa


Facts About Africa Diamonds in Africa

Facts About Africa South African Safaris

Facts About Africa South African Safaris

South Africa is renowned in the world for its diverse culture, heritage, wildlife, national parks and some of the most popular Safaris. South Africa has 20 national parks among which Kruger National Park is the oldest, largest and most popular national park where people from all over the world flock in for taking the tours of South African Safari. Besides the Kruger National Park, Table Mountain National Park is the second most visited South African Safari.

In the olden days, the South African Safaris were mainly conducted for big game hunt; however, today's South African Safaris have become tours for exploring and photographing the wildlife and animals. For the visitors to South African Safari, it is an experience of a lifetime and therefore, depending upon the type of visit, whether an adventure Safari or a Family Safari, the visitors should select the itineraries and tour operators. With its five big game animals, wide range of accommodation choices, diverse bird watching, exclusive reserves, nigh safari and walking safaris, Kruger National Park is the most favorite South African Safari.


Facts About Africa South African Safaris

South African Safaris

Facts About Africa South African Safaris

Facts About Africa Problems in Africa

Africa is a continent that has been facing several problems including poverty, absence of democracy, unemployment, poor facilities of education, lack of infrastructure, child abuse and high rate of infant mortality, high levels of colonialism, corruption, crime and many other problems on the social and economic fronts. Although some improvements have been witnessed during the last 3-4 decades but still the problems in Africa are much more than in any other continent of the world.





Despite it being the richest continent in terms of mineral resources and the highest production of precious metals like gold, Africa continues to reel under extreme poverty and the lowest growth rate in the world. Unemployment, pollution, acute power shortages, spread of some of the highly contagious and dangerous diseases such as TB, Malaria, and HIV, lack of proper sanitation facilities, crime, shortage of skilled labor, lack of basic education, corruption and high rate of crime, are some of the old and never-ending problems in Africa. Africa's food problems and lack of proper and sufficient medicines keep on adding to the burgeoning problems in Africa.

Facts About Africa Tribes in Africa 2010

Africa is perhaps the only nation that has hundreds of ethnic groups or tribes with different languages, dialects and culture. Africa is the land of people with wide range of social traits, customs, diverse origins, cultural difference, languages and dialects, diverse lifestyle, varying climates, and inhuman living conditions across its deserts and jungles, due to which there are hundreds of diverse ethnic groups and tribes in Africa.




For example, Bantu language speakers are common in southern, eastern and central Africa, Nilotic groups in east Africa and Pygmy in central and south Africa, to name the few. Some of the major ethnic groups and tribes with more than 10 million people include Arabs, Berber and Egyptians; Hausa in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Sudan; Yoruba in Nigeria and Benin; Somali in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya; Zulu in South Africa; Fula in Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, Central African Countries, Ghana, Chad, Sudan, Niger and Senegal; Shona in Zimbabwe and Mozambique; Amhara in Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia; Oromo in Ethiopia and Kenya; Igbo in Nigeria and Cameroon; Ljaw in Nigeria.

Facts About Africa South Africa Travel 2010

South Africa is a nation located at the southern tip of African Continent. South Africa is famous for immense diversity in culture, language, and some of the oldest archeological sites in the world. Johannesburg is the largest city of South Africa and Pretoria and Cape Town are the Capital cities for Executive and Legislative functions. Bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique, South Africa is the land of varying landscapes, and rich in flora and fauna and it is often a good starting point for the tours to African Continent.




If you are planning to undertake South Africa Travel, you should get familiar with the climate, which varies from desert and arid in the northwest to subtropical in the east, being coastal regions. Summers can be extremely hot with temperatures over 35 degrees and winters with temperatures near zero degrees. South Africa Travel must include some of the most fascination places for exploring wildlife such as Kruger National Park and many other parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and some of the most important cities such as Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.

Facts About Africa Places in Africa 2010

Africa, birthplace of human race, is world's second largest continent both in terms of geographical area and the population, next to Asia. With about 30 million square kilometers area, Africa accounts for roughly 6% of the total surface area of Earth and with a population of about one billion people, Africa accounts for 14.72% of total population of the world. There are 61 territories and 54 countries in African continent.




Some of the major countries and places in Africa include Zimbabwe – famous for ancient African civilization and Victoria falls; Kalahari desert and sand basin; Zanzibar island, Valley of the Kings – the site of ancient Egypt; Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Mount Kilimanjaro – highest mountain and a great trekking destination in Tanzania; Leptis Magna – Roman ruins in Libya; Kruger National Park in South Africa; Aksum – ancient capital of Ethiopia; Masai Mara National Park at the border of Kenya; Serengeti National Park – a huge and a typical game park in Tanzania; Cairo in Egypt; Nairobi, Johannesburg; Cape Town and its Table Mountain; and Addis Ababa, among others.