Learn the capitals of Africa in 1960
The plan: 11 batches of five
How the pieces are shared out, five at a time and by area of the map (in brackets, the capital when its name differs). Each batch starts next to the last one.
- Batch 1: Praia (Portuguese Cape Verde), Bathurst (Banjul) (British Gambia), Bissau (Portuguese Guinea), Dakar (Senegal), Conakry (Guinea)
- Batch 2: Freetown (British Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), Ouagadougou (Upper Volta)
- Batch 3: Lomé (Togo), Porto-Novo (Dahomey), Lagos (Nigeria), Santa Isabel (Malabo) (Spanish Guinea), Buea (British Cameroons)
- Batch 4: Yaoundé (Cameroon), Bangui (Central African Republic), Brazzaville (Congo (Brazzaville)), Libreville (Gabon), São Tomé (Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Batch 5: Fort-Lamy (N'Djamena) (Chad), Niamey (Niger), Algiers (French Algeria), Tunis (Tunisia), Bamako (Mali)
- Batch 6: Rabat (Morocco), El Aaiún (Spanish Sahara), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Cairo (United Arab Republic (Egypt)), Khartoum (Sudan)
- Batch 7: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Djibouti (French Somaliland), Mogadishu (Somalia), Nairobi (Kenya (British colony)), Entebbe (Uganda (British protectorate))
- Batch 8: Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam (Tanganyika), Usumbura (Bujumbura) (Ruanda-Urundi), Salisbury (Harare) (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Lourenço Marques (Maputo) (Portuguese Mozambique)
- Batch 9: Mafeking (Bechuanaland), Windhoek (South West Africa), Pretoria (Union of South Africa), Maseru (Basutoland), Mbabane (Swaziland)
- Batch 10: Luanda (Portuguese Angola), Léopoldville (Kinshasa) (Congo (Léopoldville)), Dzaoudzi (French Comoros), Tananarive (Malagasy Republic), Victoria (British Seychelles)
- Batch 11: Port Louis (British Mauritius)
Learn the capitals of Africa in 1960 at your own pace: we show you 51 capitals five at a time, each in its place on the map, and you go over the ones you miss until you know them. Free, no sign-up.
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What are the capitals of Africa in 1960?
Basutoland: Maseru; Bechuanaland: Mafeking; British Cameroons: Buea; British Gambia: Bathurst (Banjul); British Mauritius: Port Louis; British Seychelles: Victoria; British Sierra Leone: Freetown; Cameroon: Yaoundé; Central African Republic: Bangui; Chad: Fort-Lamy (N'Djamena); Congo (Brazzaville): Brazzaville; Congo (Léopoldville): Léopoldville (Kinshasa); Dahomey: Porto-Novo; Ethiopia: Addis Ababa; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Salisbury (Harare); French Algeria: Algiers; French Comoros: Dzaoudzi; French Somaliland: Djibouti; Gabon: Libreville; Ghana: Accra; Guinea: Conakry; Ivory Coast: Abidjan; Kenya (British colony): Nairobi; Liberia: Monrovia; Malagasy Republic: Tananarive; Mali: Bamako; Mauritania: Nouakchott; Morocco: Rabat; Niger: Niamey; Nigeria: Lagos; Portuguese Angola: Luanda; Portuguese Cape Verde: Praia; Portuguese Guinea: Bissau; Portuguese Mozambique: Lourenço Marques (Maputo); Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé; Ruanda-Urundi: Usumbura (Bujumbura); Senegal: Dakar; Somalia: Mogadishu; South West Africa: Windhoek; Spanish Guinea: Santa Isabel (Malabo); Spanish Sahara: El Aaiún; Sudan: Khartoum; Swaziland: Mbabane; Tanganyika: Dar es Salaam; Togo: Lomé; Tunisia: Tunis; Uganda (British protectorate): Entebbe; Union of South Africa: Pretoria; United Arab Republic (Egypt): Cairo; Upper Volta: Ouagadougou; Zanzibar: Zanzibar.
What is the easiest way to learn the capitals of Africa in 1960?
By area and in small groups: learn five neighbouring pieces, find them on the map with no rush, and go over the ones you miss a little later, then the next day. Reviewing just before you would forget is what makes them stick.
How long does it take to learn the capitals of Africa in 1960?
There are 51 pieces in 11 batches of five: about a minute per batch to see them all, then short reviews over a few days so you don't forget them.