Agriculture is by far the single most important economic activity in Africa. It provides employment for about two-thirds of the continent’s working population and for each country contributes an average of 30 to 60 percent of gross domestic product and about 30 percent of the value of exports.

Today the country is the world’s third biggest producer of phosphate. Coal, mineral oil and natural gas, but also lead, copper and iron ore belong to the many natural resources of Morocco. Further significant branches of industry are metal processing, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, leather and consumer goods.

How has rapid population increase caused difficulties for the economies of North Africa? Rapid population growth has led to high unemployment rates in many North African countries, as there are not enough jobs to employ the population.

Global Dispatch: sign up for a different world view Africa has fallen behind because its people, despite their historical abilities in science, have not done this in an organised manner. The more the western world was able to invent and innovate in the past 300 years, the more “civilised” it became.

In Africa, there are 33 countries that are classified as least developed countries:

• Burundi.
• Central African Republic.
• Chad.
• Comoros.
• Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Djibouti.
• Eritrea.
• Ethiopia.

Below are the top 10 African Countries Rated Ahead of Nigeria in Global Innovation Index 2020:

1. Mauritius. The country is among the top innovation performance of 131 countries and economies around the world.
2. South Africa.
3. Tunisia.
4. Morocco.
5. Kenya.
6. United Republic of Tanzania.
7. Rwanda.
8. Egypt.

Egypt

Somalia

Governed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), they are three-time Africa Cup of Nations winners, with their most recent title in 2013….Nigeria national football team.

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Nigeria have a long and proud association with the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The most successful side in the history of the tournament, the Nigerians have been crowned champions five times (in 1985, 1993, 2007, 2013 and 2015) and have lost in the final on three other occasions (in 1987, 2001 and 2009).

There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s. Taribo West, defender. Nigerian Super Eagles. Our British colonial masters brought us a lot of good stuff.