What Do You Know About Africa?

I'm sure you all are very excited about your upcoming trip to Africa, I mean, come on, why wouldn't you be? So I want to ask you, what do you know about Southern Africa? You going to spend the bulk of your summer in Southern Africa, so what do you know about it?

So here's the challenge for the week: let's see what we know about Southern Africa. Post your information on this thread so we can share our findings with the rest of the group.