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History
Re-education

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THINGS

THAT YOU DO NOT

KNOW ABOUT AFRIKA

Originally published by: www.theafricanhistory.com

1. The human race is of African 2. Skeletons of pre-humans have fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago.
origin. The oldest known skeletal been found in Africa that date back At Katanda, a region in northeastern
remains of anatomically modern between 4 and 5 million years. The Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered
humans (or homo sapiens sapiens) oldest known ancestral type of hu- a finely wrought series of harpoon
were excavated at sites in East Afri- manity is thought to have been the points, all elaborately polished and
ca. Human remains were discovered australopithecus ramidus, who lived barbed. Also uncovered was a tool,
at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at least 4.4 million years ago. equally well crafted, believed to be
at 195,000 years old, the oldest a dagger. The discoveries suggested
known in the world. 3. Africans were the first to organise the existence of an early aquatic or

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