Africa in Three Charts and a Graph

Your regular reminder that you may not be interested in Africa, but Africa is very interested in you.

She is a poor, violent, and desperate continent. Structurally, that will not improve any time soon; probably just the opposite.

I will end my extended commentary there. I will let your higher brain functions and pictures do the rest.

In red, you have the ungoverned spaces;

Next you have religious distribution:

And finally, from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project;

The future belongs to, and will be influenced by, those who show up.