By Updater
The current population of Africa is 1,482,724,524 as of Saturday, February 24, 2024, based on the latest United Nations estimates. Africa population is equivalent to 17.89% of the total world population.
Around 400 million Africans use social media: 70.35% use Facebook, 11.39 YouTube, 7.77 % Twitter, 6.53 Instagram, 3.19 Pinterest, 0.52 LinkedIn,
Musicians and sportsmen dominate in terms of popularity in Africans e-community. Six Egyptians make it into top 10 with five of them occupying the first five spots. Others are three Nigerians and a South African.
10. Mark Angel (40 million
Mark Angel (born 27 May 1991) is a Nigerian comedian, scriptwriter, and video producer. He is best known for the Mark Angel Comedy series of shorts on YouTube. Angel’s YouTube channel was the first African comedy channel to reach one million subscribers.
9. Wizkid (42.3 million)
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born 16 July 1990), known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. A prominent figure in the modern day Afrobeats music scene, he is regarded as one of the most commercially successful and most influential African recording artists of the 21st century
8. Ab de Villiers (47.3 million)
Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African former international cricketer, and a current commentator. AB de Villiers was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times during his 15-year international career and was one of the five Wisden cricketers of the decade at the end of 2019.
He is regarded as one of the greatest cricketers in the history of the sport and as one of the best batsmen of his era