Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.

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million km2 (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of Earth's total
surface area and 20.4 percent of its total land area.[2] With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it
accounts for about 15% of the world's human population.[1] The continent is surrounded by
the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai
Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and theAtlantic Ocean to the west.
The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It has 54 fully
recognized sovereign states(or countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states
with limited or no recognition.[3]
Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents;[4][5] the median age in 2012
was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4.[6] Algeria is Africa's largest country by area,
and Nigeria by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the
place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery
of the earliesthominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around
seven million years ago, includingSahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A.
afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster with the earliestHomo sapiens (modern
human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago.[7] Africa straddles
the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the
northern temperate to southern temperate zones.[8]
Africa hosts a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages. In the late 19th century
European countries colonized most of Africa. Most modern states in Africa originate from a
process of decolonization in the 20th century.
The indigenous people of Africa are those people of Africa whose way of life, attachment or
claims to particular lands, and social and political standing in relation to other more dominant
groups have resulted in their substantial marginalisation within modern African states (viz.,
"indigeneity" for the purposes of this article has the narrow definition of "politically
underprivileged group who have been an ethnic entity in the locality before the present ruling
nation took over power"; see definitions and identity of indigenous peoples).
Although the vast majority of African peoples can be considered to be "indigenous" in the sense
that they have originated from that continent and nowhere else, in practice identity as an
"indigenous people" as per the term's modern application is more restrictive. Not every African
ethnic group claims identification under these terms. Groups and communities who do claim this
recognition are those who by a variety of historical and environmental circumstances have been
placed outside of the dominant state systems. Their traditional practices and land claims often

have come into conflict with the objectives and policies promulgated by governments,
companies and surrounding dominant societies.
You're on the phone with your girlfriend she's upset,
She's going off about something that you said
'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do.

I'm in the room, it's a typical Tuesday night.

I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like.
And she'll never know your story like I do.

But she wears short skirts

I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

If you could see

That I'm the one
Who understands you.
Been here all along.
So, why can't you see
You belong with me,
You belong with me?

Walk in the streets with you in your worn out jeans

I can't help thinking this is how it ought to be.
Laughing on a park bench thinking to myself,
"Hey, isn't this easy?"

And you've got a smile

That can light up this whole town.
I haven't seen it in awhile
Since she brought you down.

You say you're fine I know you better than that.

Hey, what you doing with a girl like that?

She wears high heels,

I wear sneakers.
She's cheer captain,
And I'm on the bleachers.
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

If you could see

That I'm the one
Who understands you,
Been here all along.
So, why can't you see
You belong with me?

Standing by and waiting at your backdoor.

All this time how could you not know, baby?
You belong with me,
You belong with me.

Oh, I remember you driving to my house

In the middle of the night.
I'm the one who makes you laugh
When you know you're 'bout to cry.
I know your favorite songs,
And you tell me about your dreams.
Think I know where you belong,
Think I know it's with me.

Can't you see

That I'm the one
Who understands you?
Been here all along.
So, why can't you see
You belong with me?

Standing by and waiting at your backdoor.

All this time how could you not know, baby?

You belong with me,
You belong with me.

You belong with me.

Have you ever thought just maybe

You belong with me?

You belong with me.