Africa

• Name some misconceptions about Africa

  No technology, everyone lives in poor quality housing, no water, everyone speaks African
• Nobody has technology (False)

  • 650 million users of mobile phones
  • 15% of world internet use is in Africa
  • 13.5% of Africans have access to internet
• Everyone lives in poor quality housing /informal settlements (False)

  21% live in good quality housing
• There is no water in Africa (False)

  • Has one of the largest rainforests
  • Only 25% suffer from water shortages
  • 13% suffer from droughts
• Everybody in Africa speaks African (False)

  • There is an estimation of 1500 - 2000 in different languages in Africa
  • Most countries speak more than one official language
  • Large number of countries speak English, French and other European languages