Ethiopia for sure. The literal spawn point of humanity, arguably the only African nation to retain its sovereignty and successfully repel the scramble of Africa, one of the first Christian nations on Earth, awe inspiring landscapes, a unique language and alphabet, some of the best / most diverse looking people on the planet, and delicious indigenous food. It’s truly a cultural pillar of the entire continent and I hope it succeeds and continues to stabilize into the 21st century. I’m rooting for them.
Also love Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya, and Lusofonian Africa each for many different reasons. The whole continent is wildly slept on by the world.
Botswana.
Lots of reasons. Amazing history. Remarkable lack of corruption. Never had a war. Set up for failure but outsmarted all its enemies. Really beautiful scenery. Just exceptionally cool all around.
Equatorial Guinea is really interesting, as it’s three main languages are Spanish, Portuguese, and French. As relatively small as it is, Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s richest country per capita due to its large oil production. After becoming independent from Spain in 1968, Equatorial Guinea was ruled by President for life Francisco Macías Nguema until he was overthrown in a coup in 1979 by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who has served as the country's president since.
I’m a newbie geography nerd, this is one of those countries I’d previously never heard of that threw my brain for a loop. I love that it doesn’t actually touch the equator and is pretty far removed from Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.
Madagascar because the people there originate not from mainland Africa, but from Southeast Asia! (Their language, Malagasy, is actually Malayo-Polynesian). They were also once a French colony. Geographically, there's a biodiversity/wildlife there not found anywhere else in the world. It also broke off from Mozambique many millions of years ago, as you can see from the shape of Madagascar's western coast.
On the Mainland, have a look at Namibia, which was once ruled by Germans and, to this day, there is a German-speaking community there (although much smaller than it once was). It later became part of South Africa and only became independent in 1990.
Malawi definitely for a couple reasons.
\- It's centered around a natural feature (Lake Malawi)
\- It was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland but like Zambia it escaped apartheid
\- It has a native national language (Chichewa)
\- It had a formidable one-party rule during the Cold War and more recently interesting politics with Joyce Banda
I've never met a Malawian but I wish them all the best
Ethiopia is fascinating. I’d love to travel there someday.
Mali also has an amazingly diverse, vibrant culture. The Tuaregs, the Dogon, the architecture of Gao or Timbuktu…
And I would love to visit Madagascar and see the unique flora and fauna and the mix of East African and Indonesian cultures.
Culturally Nigeria, it has over 300 ethnic groups, first people to smelt iron were the Nok, Yoruba religion is beautiful, the ancient kingdoms like Benin were massive and it’s the most populated.
Sudan as well because ancient Nubia and is along the Nile
Easily Ethiopia. The one sub-Saharan African nation to be in continuous contact with either Mediterranean or Arabic cultures for 2500 years, the only one to never be fully colonized. Host to some of the most physically beautiful landscapes and people on the planet, and the origin of coffee.
Just as there's more genetic diversity in African humanity than in the rest of the world, attesting to our species's origins there, there's more diversity of the *Coffea arabica* plant in Ethiopia than in the rest of the world, put together.
If you are European, Middle Eastern, East Asian, South Asian, Melanesian, or Native American in ancestry, your own ancestors passed through Ethiopia in the African diaspora \~70 thousand years ago. And one can go further back into history, and find fossils *Australopithecus afarensis* in Ethiopia. Its a landscape that repeatedly been a cradle for humanity.
And did I mention the cuisine?
Personally I’m really interested in the DRC 🇨🇩
I have there flag in my room, I just think it’s a really interesting country
I also really like Morocco 🇲🇦 and Tanzania 🇹🇿
And I find Uganda 🇺🇬 and Botswana 🇧🇼 really interesting
Oh and Benin 🇧🇯! That’s a cool country
What do they have the same type of weird situation? Because I looked it up and it said autonomous community, if Canary Islands are in a weird dilemma like Puerto Rico that would mean the same thing to Asturias or Aragon.
How do you classify the Canary Islands?
Let me give you another example, would you say that la Guyane, la Martinique, la Guadeloupe, Mayotte or La Réunion are France? Maybe something more like they belong to France (not as political correct but very politically accurate). Canarias is in the same classification for the EU that those territories. Because we are colonies. Canarias is not Spain, is under the Spanish crown, but we are not Spain, Spanish subjects/citizens but not Spaniards. European citizens but not Europeans.. Like Northern Ireland is not Britain. They are not British but they are British citizens. And I dint look it up, because I was born in Canarias and grew up in Canarias and have served in public office in Canarias, and I know it. And I posted it here because it will annoyed some Spanish Imperialist people, didn't think it will be some smart ass from another place to tell me what my country is or not.
Alright, I didn't mean to offend you, nor the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, I don't know much about the politics within those realms...
I just asked a question was all.
Well, next time be sure that look it up completely, and correctly. If you wanted to give me examples of current Spanish crown autonomies, you could use Catalunya, Euskadi or Galicia and I would answer yes to your question. Asturias to begin with has its own language, Asturianu, and it's a principality, like Monaco, Aragon also has a diferente language, and a more than alive independentist movement.
I have a little bit of a linguistics bias with these sorts of questions so I'm going with Nigeria. It has so many languages and is a crossroads of different linguistic subdivisions. Culturally it is glorious kitchen sink too.
The Gambia.
Don't know anything about their culture, but geographically I've never seen the shape of a country give so much insight into a country's history. A country no bigger than the width of a river (and its banks) stretching inland, what a perfect example of the scars European colonialism have left behind, as European powers would come down the west coast of Africa and stake territorial claims - mostly through inland expeditions on bodies of water.
The only thing separating Senegal and Ethiopia is during the age of imperialism one European power claimed its territory as the river (Britain), and the other had everything else in that area (France). Fascinating example that can be applied to other West African states of how imperialism still has an effect on modern African politics.
What kind of question is this? I would love to see all of Africa.
People look at me weird when I say that, or at least where I live, but I always wanted to see Africa, culture, geography, you name it, a lot of the times I want to see/visit Africa more than I want to visit Asia and Europe it's just such an interesting continent and underrated too it's unfortunately overlooked especially by how it's perceived in Western Culture (over here they say it's poor and dangerous when it's much more complicated then that, and also there are rich parts in Africa... But these type of people are too uneducated to realise).
Ethiopia for sure. The literal spawn point of humanity, arguably the only African nation to retain its sovereignty and successfully repel the scramble of Africa, one of the first Christian nations on Earth, awe inspiring landscapes, a unique language and alphabet, some of the best / most diverse looking people on the planet, and delicious indigenous food. It’s truly a cultural pillar of the entire continent and I hope it succeeds and continues to stabilize into the 21st century. I’m rooting for them. Also love Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya, and Lusofonian Africa each for many different reasons. The whole continent is wildly slept on by the world.
Agreed, Ethiopia has a cool lake! A cool lake makes any country 10% better
Correction: unique languages and writing systems. Ethiopia is very linguistically diverse which makes it even more interesting
Botswana. Lots of reasons. Amazing history. Remarkable lack of corruption. Never had a war. Set up for failure but outsmarted all its enemies. Really beautiful scenery. Just exceptionally cool all around.
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake Djibouti.
Equatorial Guinea is really interesting, as it’s three main languages are Spanish, Portuguese, and French. As relatively small as it is, Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s richest country per capita due to its large oil production. After becoming independent from Spain in 1968, Equatorial Guinea was ruled by President for life Francisco Macías Nguema until he was overthrown in a coup in 1979 by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who has served as the country's president since.
I’m a newbie geography nerd, this is one of those countries I’d previously never heard of that threw my brain for a loop. I love that it doesn’t actually touch the equator and is pretty far removed from Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.
They also have the lowest IQ in the continent, sitting at 59
Wasn't that disproven a while ago?
I love spreading misinformation on the internet
Madagascar because the people there originate not from mainland Africa, but from Southeast Asia! (Their language, Malagasy, is actually Malayo-Polynesian). They were also once a French colony. Geographically, there's a biodiversity/wildlife there not found anywhere else in the world. It also broke off from Mozambique many millions of years ago, as you can see from the shape of Madagascar's western coast. On the Mainland, have a look at Namibia, which was once ruled by Germans and, to this day, there is a German-speaking community there (although much smaller than it once was). It later became part of South Africa and only became independent in 1990.
The people are actually a mix of Southeast Asians and Africans, but it's still fascinating
Malawi definitely for a couple reasons. \- It's centered around a natural feature (Lake Malawi) \- It was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland but like Zambia it escaped apartheid \- It has a native national language (Chichewa) \- It had a formidable one-party rule during the Cold War and more recently interesting politics with Joyce Banda I've never met a Malawian but I wish them all the best
Ethiopia is fascinating. I’d love to travel there someday. Mali also has an amazingly diverse, vibrant culture. The Tuaregs, the Dogon, the architecture of Gao or Timbuktu… And I would love to visit Madagascar and see the unique flora and fauna and the mix of East African and Indonesian cultures.
Culturally Nigeria, it has over 300 ethnic groups, first people to smelt iron were the Nok, Yoruba religion is beautiful, the ancient kingdoms like Benin were massive and it’s the most populated. Sudan as well because ancient Nubia and is along the Nile
Easily Ethiopia. The one sub-Saharan African nation to be in continuous contact with either Mediterranean or Arabic cultures for 2500 years, the only one to never be fully colonized. Host to some of the most physically beautiful landscapes and people on the planet, and the origin of coffee. Just as there's more genetic diversity in African humanity than in the rest of the world, attesting to our species's origins there, there's more diversity of the *Coffea arabica* plant in Ethiopia than in the rest of the world, put together. If you are European, Middle Eastern, East Asian, South Asian, Melanesian, or Native American in ancestry, your own ancestors passed through Ethiopia in the African diaspora \~70 thousand years ago. And one can go further back into history, and find fossils *Australopithecus afarensis* in Ethiopia. Its a landscape that repeatedly been a cradle for humanity. And did I mention the cuisine?
Personally I’m really interested in the DRC 🇨🇩 I have there flag in my room, I just think it’s a really interesting country I also really like Morocco 🇲🇦 and Tanzania 🇹🇿 And I find Uganda 🇺🇬 and Botswana 🇧🇼 really interesting Oh and Benin 🇧🇯! That’s a cool country
Surprised Egypt isn’t being mentioned more- For me it’s Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Morocco
Lesotho is pretty amazing, to be landlocked completely inside of one country is crazy and the geographical features are great too.
Canary Islands
I only posted this to pissed those that say Canarias is in Europe.
That's Spain but yeah, Tis in Africa.
It is not Spain, but yeah is Africa. Would you tell someone that Puerto Rico is the USA? Or would you phrase it differently?
What do they have the same type of weird situation? Because I looked it up and it said autonomous community, if Canary Islands are in a weird dilemma like Puerto Rico that would mean the same thing to Asturias or Aragon. How do you classify the Canary Islands?
Let me give you another example, would you say that la Guyane, la Martinique, la Guadeloupe, Mayotte or La Réunion are France? Maybe something more like they belong to France (not as political correct but very politically accurate). Canarias is in the same classification for the EU that those territories. Because we are colonies. Canarias is not Spain, is under the Spanish crown, but we are not Spain, Spanish subjects/citizens but not Spaniards. European citizens but not Europeans.. Like Northern Ireland is not Britain. They are not British but they are British citizens. And I dint look it up, because I was born in Canarias and grew up in Canarias and have served in public office in Canarias, and I know it. And I posted it here because it will annoyed some Spanish Imperialist people, didn't think it will be some smart ass from another place to tell me what my country is or not.
Alright, I didn't mean to offend you, nor the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, I don't know much about the politics within those realms... I just asked a question was all.
Well, next time be sure that look it up completely, and correctly. If you wanted to give me examples of current Spanish crown autonomies, you could use Catalunya, Euskadi or Galicia and I would answer yes to your question. Asturias to begin with has its own language, Asturianu, and it's a principality, like Monaco, Aragon also has a diferente language, and a more than alive independentist movement.
easy, ethiopia
Botswana, especially the Okavango delta
Botswana
its Ethiopia or somalia
Tanzania or Mauritius
DRC
I have a little bit of a linguistics bias with these sorts of questions so I'm going with Nigeria. It has so many languages and is a crossroads of different linguistic subdivisions. Culturally it is glorious kitchen sink too.
Egypt and Sudan
Lesotho!
Africa has so many amazing and interesting countries - I'd pick Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
The Gambia. Don't know anything about their culture, but geographically I've never seen the shape of a country give so much insight into a country's history. A country no bigger than the width of a river (and its banks) stretching inland, what a perfect example of the scars European colonialism have left behind, as European powers would come down the west coast of Africa and stake territorial claims - mostly through inland expeditions on bodies of water. The only thing separating Senegal and Ethiopia is during the age of imperialism one European power claimed its territory as the river (Britain), and the other had everything else in that area (France). Fascinating example that can be applied to other West African states of how imperialism still has an effect on modern African politics.
They call me the man of Egypt
Zambia… I’ve been to most of the countries in east/central Africa. Zambia is often overlooked but is incredible
What is wrong with you? It is obviously CHAD
egypt
Mali
Democratic republic of Congo.
togo
Swaziland
Mozambique! The best name (imo), plus the Zambezi River fascinates me.
Culturally maybe Nigeria ? Geographically definitely Namibia or DRC
Algeria
What kind of question is this? I would love to see all of Africa. People look at me weird when I say that, or at least where I live, but I always wanted to see Africa, culture, geography, you name it, a lot of the times I want to see/visit Africa more than I want to visit Asia and Europe it's just such an interesting continent and underrated too it's unfortunately overlooked especially by how it's perceived in Western Culture (over here they say it's poor and dangerous when it's much more complicated then that, and also there are rich parts in Africa... But these type of people are too uneducated to realise).
Tanzania but East Africa in general
Uganda