Largest white populace in Africa.

The African country with the largest white population of European descent is South Africa with 7.8% of the total population of 56.5 million people, the second is Botswana with 7% of the total population of 2.3 million, third is Namibia with 6% of the total population of 2.6 million.

Smallest white populace in Africa.

There are seven African countries tied for the smallest number of whites living in Africa and they all begin with the letter S and Z, they are South Sudan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Sao Tome and Principe, Zambia and Zimbabwe with .01% of the total population in each African country.

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Minorities in Africa.

Race and ethnicity in Africa is complex because of the colonization of all 54 African countries except Ethiopia by white Europeans of the United Kingdom, Germany, Romans, Danish, the French, the Dutch, China and many others. The listing of white inhabitants on Africa’s mainland and Islands uses data from 2020 World Fact Book. White minority residents in Africa are a culturally, ethnically, and racially distinct group of people, our chart shows the percentage of white population of European descent.

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White people constitute a small minority of the total population on the African continent with the three whitest African countries being South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.

Table of the percentage of Africa that is white.

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African Countries.	Percent of white population.
Algeria	Less than 1%
Angola	2%
Benin	Less than 1%
Botswana	7%
Burkina Faso	Less than 1%
Burundi	Less than 1%
Cabo Verde	1%
Cameroon	Less than 1%
Central African Republic	Less than 1%
Chad	Less than 1%
The Democratic Republic of the Congo	Less than .5%
The Republic of the Congo	Less than .5%
Cote d'Ivoire	Less than 1%
Djibouti	Less than 1%
Egypt	Less than 1%
Equatorial Guinea	1.40%
Eritrea	Less than 1%
eSwatini	3%
Ethiopia	Less than 1%
Gabon	Less than 1%
The Gambia	Less than 1%
Ghana	Less than 1%
Guinea	Less than 1%
Guinea-Bissau	Less than 1%
Kenya	Less than 1%
Lesotho	Less than 1%
Liberia	Less than 1%
Libya	Less than 1%
Madagascar	Less than .3%
Malawi	Less than 1%
Mali	Less than 1%
Mauritania	Less than 1%
Mauritius	No ethnicity national census since 1972
Morocco	Less than 1%
Mozambique	Less than .5%
Namibia	6%
Niger	Less than .3%
Nigeria	Less than 1%
Rwanda	Less than .2%
Sao Tome and Principe	Less than .1%
Senegal	1%
Seychelles	Less than .01%
Sierra Leone	Less than .01%
Somalia	Less than .3%
South Africa	7.80%
South Sudan	Less than .01%
Sudan	Less than .01%
Tanzania	Less than .3%
Togo	Less than .2%
Tunisia	1%
Uganda	Less than .2%
Zambia	Less than .01%
Zimbabwe	Less than .02%

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Ten African countries and capitals begin with the letter L, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Laayoune, Libreville, Lilongwe, Lobamba, Lomé, Luanda, and Lusaka.

African Countries That Begin with L

Lesotho

Lesotho is landlocked, surrounded by South Africa; mountainous, more than 80% of the country is 1,800 m above sea level. It has relatively higher population density in the western half of the nation, with the capital of Maseru, and the smaller cities of Mafeteng, Teyateyaneng, and Leribe attracting the most people. Lesotho HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is the second highest in the world. The United States established diplomatic relations with Lesotho in 1966, immediately following its independence from the United Kingdom. Post-independence, the country has seen a mix of rule by decree, coups, military government, and democratically elected government.

Liberia

Liberia land is mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast, facing the Atlantic Ocean, the coastline is characterized by lagoons, mangrove swamps, and river-deposited sandbars; the inland grassy plateau supports limited agriculture. More than half of the population lives in urban areas, with approximately one-third living within an 80-km radius of Monrovia. The United States established diplomatic relations with Liberia in 1864; 17 years after it declared independence from the American Colonization Society, an organization that resettled free African-Americans and freed slaves in Liberia. A 1980 coup ended the rule of the party that controlled the country from its independence in 1847.

Libya

Libya's economy is almost entirely dependent on oil and gas exports; well over 90% of the population lives along the Mediterranean coast in and between Tripoli to the west and Al Bayda to the east; the interior remains vastly underpopulated due to the Sahara and lack of surface water. In Libya, more than 90% of the country is desert or semi desert.

African Capitals That Begin with L

Laayoune

Laayoune is the largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara currently administered by Morocco. Laayoune, also spelled El-Aaiún, El-Ayoun, Aaiún, or Aiun, town, northern Western Sahara, 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, situated in the geographic region of Saguia el-Hamra.

Libreville

Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, in western central Africa. The city is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea, and a trade center for a timber region.

Lilongwe

Lilongwe is the capital city of Malawi located in the central region of Malawi, near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia. It is an important economic and transportation hub for central Malawi named after the Lilongwe River.

Lobamba

Lobamba is a densely populated rural area, central eSwatini formally Swaziland, southern Africa. According to traditional Swazi customs, Lobamba is the residence of the Ndlovukazi (“She Elephant”; i.e., the Queen Mother) and is thereby the spiritual home of the Swazi nation

Lomé

Lomé is the capital of Togo in West Africa. Lomé is surrounded by a lagoon to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, the village of Bè to the east and the border of Aflao, Ghana to the West. The city has seen massive growth in recent times due to an oil refinery in the east.

Luanda

Luanda is the capital of Angola, and was once again named the most expensive city in the world for expatriates. Luanda, also spelled Loanda, formerly São Paulo de Luanda, city, capital of Angola. Located on the Atlantic coast of northern Angola, it is the country's largest city and one of its busiest seaports. Founded in 1576 by Paulo Dias de Novais and initially settled by the Portuguese.

Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia and is an urban zone city home to roughly one in ten Zambians. Lusaka Province is bordered along Zimbabwe along Lower Zambezi National Park in the south, Central Province in the north, Southern Province in the southwest and Eastern Province in the north east.

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African print fabrics represent African culture visually. People connect with heritage fabric as a representation of African identity, culture, and heritage by wearing African print head wraps and clothing. However, most African prints and designs have nothing to do with African heritage and almost no manufacturing economic benefit to Africa.

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Culture is about learning, not just what you wear, so wear your African print but also understand the history behind the fabric.

African print fabric is a Vlisco print whose meaning is throwing stones in a water well.

Vlisco is a 170 year old company in Helmond, the Netherlands who is one of the largest importers of African print fabrics in the world along with the Chinese company Hitarget located in Guangdong province in South Eastern China.

According to Vlisco the fabric above first appeared on the market in early 1960 and goes by many names such as Plaque-Plaque, Target, and Nsu Bura in the Twi language of Ghana and means, water well.

The meaning behind the circular design is when someone throws a stone in a water well, you can see a ripple effect. The message is that whatever you do, good or bad, it will have an effect on everyone around you.

Other names of the African print circular design are Consulaire, Gbédjégan which is a traditional straw king’s hat in Togo, and Gbedze, a hat worn during daily activities to protect the wearer from the sun. In Nigeria, the design is known as Record which reminds people of old vinyl records.

When purchasing wax print fabric it is hard to know where the fabric you purchased online or in the markets comes from and who designed and produced the fabric. For instance, VLISCO owns The Ghana Textile Printing Company, GTP, which has two companies under the GTP brand which are Tex Styles Ghana that prints GTP products and Premium African Textiles which creates the designs, distributes, sells and markets the GTP brand.

Other brands are Woodin which is designed, produced and sold by Tex Styles Ghana Limited and Premium African Textiles Company, and the fabric is imported by VLISCO and Uniwax produced in Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast, fabric is imported by Vlisco also. 

The household gravel, leopard skin or small stones African wax printing design is a symbol about how your family can give the most pain.

Made in Africa, no, the African fabric print you're wearing probably isn’t African it is Dutch, Indian or Chinese.

African wax print fabric made in the Netherlands and made in China is a stamp that is ubiquitous and can be found on thousands of fabric designs worldwide. Nevertheless, it is rare to find fabric that marks its point of origins in an African country, Made in Ghana would indeed be a strange site in America since Africa has 1.5% share of the world's total manufacturing output. This scenario does not help to spread wealth and bolster the Ghanaian economy.

Wear African print fabric but make no illusion that sporting the attire makes you any closer to Africa than wearing Levis. Culture is deeper than African prints made in The Netherlands, China or India. Culture is learning and understanding were wax prints originated. African wax prints, also known as Ankara and Dutch wax prints in contemporary times, is an African traditional printing processes.

European traders replicated the fabrics using modern machinery, particularly the Dutch who are one of the main producers of the fabrics today. The method of producing African wax print fabric is ancient art forms were designs are printed onto cotton cloth using soft wax.

The purpose of the wax is to prevent the dye from penetrating the cloth. The dye is then applied to the cloth coloring the spaces in between the wax areas. Sometimes several colors are used, with a series of dyeing, drying and waxing steps.

Many of symbols in African wax printing method are coded pictures that relate to the history, beliefs, and philosophy of African people. During local production of African cloth, symbols were well-known visual signs that had a hidden meaning and only locals could decipher.

Ghana African Papa Ye Asa Print Fabric

Depending on the African country, African print patterns have different meanings, for example in Ghana the African print design above is called Papa Ye Asa and means ungrateful friend or goodness is never finished. In Cote d'ivoire this African print is called Grotto denoting a prosperous person with high social status.