Mama Africa

By: Alaa Babiker

Today, I would like to take a pause and speak about one of the seven continents of the world, our Mother Africa.

Being the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both aspects, Africa has 54 great countries, which all combined are rich with 40 percent of the world’s gold and up to 90 percent of its chromium and platinum. Also the largest reserves of cobalt, diamonds, platinum and uranium in the world are in Africa.

Our Mother Africa is the common ancestor of all people of African descent irrespective of their physical characteristics and current location on this planet. People all over the world have written novels and sang great songs about Africa. Great example is Zenzile Miriam Makeba, who was nicknamed Mama Africa, a South African singer, song writer, and civil rights activist known for becoming the first African artist to globally popularize African music.

Additional rich aspect of Africa is the animal resources; the continent has lions‚ leopards, cheetahs‚ Spotted hyenas, African wild dog, African elephants, hippos, rhinos‚ Nile crocodile, Nile monitor, African rock python, Black mamba, Gaboon viper, Forest cobra, African spurred tortoises, African bullfrog, and other different type of all kinds of birds and other animals. Our country Sudan has magnificent animal resources that can be used as a source of hard currency income in the future.

Africa is great because it has great nations like the Sudanese. All of the African nations are great. When they unite they can do the impossible, and that is the word itself says (I’m possibe). I wish our African country Sudan to get back much stronger and the leaders to become much wiser.

Proud to be African. Proud to be Sudanese. Stay safe everyone.