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beacause it was said to be dark before the 19th century
Mother country is what England was called during the Colonial period in America. This was when America had not yet gained it independence and America was known as the "New World" while England was known as the "Old World" or the "Mother Country." This was because England was kind of like a "Mother" to the United States because of the fact that they still had power over the U.S.
Africa used to be known as the Dark Continent. This is because nothing was known about the interior of Africa up until about the mid 1800s. So to the outside world, interior Africa was known as dark and mysterious.
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture was a leader of the Haitian Revolution of 1791, known as the first successful attempt by a slave population in the Americas and the world to win independence from European colonialism.
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No country was known as British East Africa.
After World War I, it was put under the control of South Africa and called South-West Africa. After gaining their independence in 1990, the country was renamed Namibia.
Before the country was renamed to Namibia, it was known as South West Africa. So the original spelling is Namibia/ South West Africa.
The country, its in Africa.
Mango's are known to grow in Eastern Africa.
There is no country called East Africa, but there is a region known as East Africa.
The most populous country in Africa is Nigeria with an estimated population of 155,215,573 (2010) people. The largest country in Africa is Sudan and is not the most populated as vast areas of it are uninhabitable.
Nigeria
Egypt.
South Africa