Africa 🌍

The continent in numbers

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Africa

2,000+

Africa has 2,000 languages. AI understands fewer than 42.

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77/hr

Lagos grows by 77 people every hour

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2018

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2,500

Nigeria makes more films than Hollywood. Every year.

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