24 African Countries You Didn’t Know Spoke French

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On the northern tip of the main island of #Comoros are some fabulous hiking spots, and spectacular landscapes like the coastline around Lac Sale crater. In collaboration with @ewa_airofficiel ————————————————————— #コモロ の北端には素晴らしいハイキングスポットがいくつかあり、ラクセールクレーター周辺の海岸線のような壮観な風景があります。

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Comoros is a set of tiny islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. The French ruled these islands from 1841 to 1978. Approximately 40% of the Comoros population were slaves.

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F O R E S T • E L E P H A N T S 🐘 ____________________ I really enjoy aerial photography, even if it can be difficult to know whether the photos worked out or not until it’s too late – there’s just not much time to review them in the air. But it’s a great way to gain perspective, and of course in places where the terrain is thick it’s often difficult to find wildlife from the ground. Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo (the former French colony) – another park managed by @africanparksnetwork – is one such place, and getting a chance to photograph it from the air was wonderful. The most exciting aspect was definitely the chance to see (and photograph) some of the park’s many forest elephants. Smaller than both their savannah and Asian cousins, forest elephants are nevertheless the among the world’s largest terrestrial animals, and having encountered them on foot I can tell you they don’t seem much smaller than other elephants. 😳 There are perhaps 100,000 left in central Africa, but their population is in sharp decline, and as they reproduce slower than savannah elephants they are also more vulnerable and take longer to recover from such declines. 🐘 . . . . . . . . . #odzala #congo #republicofthecongo #aerialphotography #forestelephants #elephants #onlyelephantsshouldwearivory #everydayextinction #africanature

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This central African country used to be part of the French colony but gained independence in 1960. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of instability in the country because of the political climate and because of its Marxist-Leninist state. The whole educational system is still in French.

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#ivorycoast #africa #africanbeach #africanbeauty

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The Ivory Coast is another one of France’s old colonies during the scramble for Africa. The country achieved their independence in 1960 but they are still very close to their colonizers and their official language is still French.