Africa  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Cover of the brochure of the "Entartete Musik exhibition

The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp), 1849

Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
(Photo by Walery)

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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. With more than 900 million people (as of 2005), it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population. Africa, particularly central eastern Africa is the birthplace of the human race.

Independence

By 1914, Africa had only two independent nations, Liberia, a nation founded in West Africa by free black Americans earlier in the nineteenth century, and the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia in East Africa.

See also

• African culture
• Black music
• African American culture
• Underground Railroad
• African diaspora
• Music of the African diaspora
• Black people