Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

The north of Africa shares a boundary with Asia. Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

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Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different treatment at different times at the hands of his critics.