African countries and their capitals

Africa is the third largest continent in the world and is bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Within this continent, and after the period of European colonialism, it was decided to make a series of countries. Can you tell me how many are there in the whole continent? In this lesson from a TEACHER we talk about the African countries and their capitals so that you better know its reality and can detect its geography.

There are 54 countries on the African continent, in addition to some territories whose recognition is limited. That is to say, some countries support that it is a free territory and others today refuse to accept them as a new country.

When were the African countries created?

Although it is difficult to understand, we will not find the existence of the first African countries until the 19th century, since previously most of the African territory was divided between the different tribes that inhabit Africa or simply some parts belonged to some European countries, as was the case of Portugal.

The rest of the territory, especially the northern part of the continent, was found framed within the ottoman empire, which until the end of World War I remained active. Starting in 1847, we will find the first independent republics such as Liberia, which was created by the USA to send the slaves recently freed after the civil war that had occurred in the territory American.

Thus, except for this republic and two other territories, The African 20th century was framed in the period known as colonialism, where the European powers decided to seize control of huge chunks of land on the continent to exploit them and expand their deals trade, in addition to bringing constant confrontations to that continent and thus being able to rearm in Europe for an imminent confrontation military.

So it wasn't until end of World War II when the first states in Africa began to be created. All this during the decolonization period, which lasted until the 1960s; Even so, we can say that there have been countries that were later to appear, as is the case of South Sudan that appeared in 2011.

In this other lesson we will discover the countries and capitals of the world so that you know the geography of our planet.

To continue our lesson on African countries and their capitals, we leave you the list of all of them (here you will first find the name of the country and then its capital), in addition to those that are not yet accepted by some States:

• Republic of Angola: Luanda
• Algerian Democratic and People's Republic: Algiers
• Republic of Benin: Porto Novo
• Republic of Botswana: Gaborone
• Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou
• Republic of Burundi: Bujumbura
• Republic of Cape Verde: Praia
• Republic of Cameroon: Yaoundé
• Republic of Chad: N'Djamena
• Union of the Comoros: Moroni
• Republic of Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro Abidjan
• Arab Republic of Egypt: Cairo
• Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
• Gabonese Republic: Libreville
• Republic of the Gambia: Banjul
• Republic of Ghana: Accra
• Republic of Guinea: Conakry
• Republic of Guinea Bissau: Bissau
• Republic of Equatorial Guinea: Malabo
• Republic of Kenya: Nairobi
• Kingdom of Lesotho: Maseru
• Republic of Liberia: Monrovia
• State of Libya: Tripoli
• Republic of Madagascar: Antananarivo
• Republic of Malawi: Lilngüe
• Republic of Mali: Bamako
• Kingdom of Morocco: Rabat
• Republic of Mauritius: Port Louis
• Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Nouakchott
• Republic of Mozambique: Maputo
• Republic of Namibia: Windhoek
• Republic of Niger: Niamey
• Federal Republic of Nigeria: Abuja
• Central African Republic: Bangui
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa
• Republic of the Congo: Brazzaville
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: Laayoune (State not recognized by Morocco)
• Republic of Rwanda: Kigali
• Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé
• Republic of Senegal: Dakar
• Republic of Seychelles: Victoria
• Republic of Sierra Leone: Freetown
• Somalia: Mogadishu
• Republic of Somaliland: Hargeisa (State not recognized by all)
• Kingdom of Swaziland: Lobamba
• Republic of South Africa: Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Verde (powers distributed)
• Republic of Sudan: Khartoum
• Republic of South Sudan: Yuba
• United Republic of Tanzania: Dodoma
• Togolese Republic: Lomé
• Tunisian Republic: Tunisia
• Republic of Uganda: Kampala
• Republic of Zambia: Lusaka
• Republic of Zimbabwe: Harare

We stop now at a point of great importance, such as the military conflicts that continue to take place throughout the continent today. This is due, above all, to the distribution of borders, which were made by European countries. In many cases they divided the territories of the various tribes, sometimes uniting parts of one tribe with another that were enemies.

This would lead to a endless social problems, above all of racial origin, as the well-known cases of Rwanda. For this reason, today, some States are not recognized by all countries, since there are interests both commercial and social in order not to allow their freedom, as is the case of the Sahara, which is a State as such under the sovereignty of Morocco.

Similarly (and within this point) we will talk about the regions that still have some European states, As is the case with Spain, Portugal, France and even England, for the most part they are islands that, although they belong to Africa, are still under European control for strategic reasons. In addition, Spain maintains the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in addition to the Canary Islands.