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Well on a technicality, Africa is thought to be the "cradle of man", in other words the place where humankind developed and spread out from. It therefore stands to reason that Africa was not discovered, as mankind evolved here first - but the rest of the world was discovered as man spread from Africa.

One of the earliest "hominid" discoveries from Africa is "Lucy" a partial skeleton which exhibits both human and ape-like characteristics these remains are dated at about 2 million years old.

The other angle is that "discovery" is always seen from a European perceptive. "when did the Greeks/ Romans/ Portuguese's/ French/ Spanish discover .... " - bear in mind that there were already (indigenous) people living in these areas before these "explorers" arrived

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