#IfAfricaWasaSchool Makes Global News. 14 of the Best…

Thousands of people across Africa yesterday had fun with the hashtag #IfAfricaWasASchool… to describe life on the continent. Some of their insights were so funny and spot on that they made global news, featuring on television news in Germany and in mainstream newspaper The Guardian in the UK, amongst many others.

Here are 14 of the top tweets:

1.

.@_Almaqah every time Ethiopia reminds the other kids for the 1000th time it was never colonized #ifafricawasaschool pic.twitter.com/iM4nFl6NOO

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) August 25, 2016

2.

https://twitter.com/SureKamhunga/status/768871579044438018

3.

https://twitter.com/NomalangaSA/status/768854596299128833

4.

#IfAfricaWasASchool Ladies And Gentlemen Meet Your Principal, Your Kid's Principal & You GrandKid's Principal 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/4iRwDnce1k

— Nkululeko Ncube (@UNcubeOthungayo) August 25, 2016

5.

https://twitter.com/abraham_lou/status/768664811051872257

6.

https://twitter.com/uziharun/status/768623708466475008

7.

https://twitter.com/youaintnoking/status/768615513606021120

#IfAfricaWasASchool
Egypt: I don't think i fit in, I'm switching schools.

Somalia: pic.twitter.com/s7jVAzMdmr

— Mire (@somaliadev) August 24, 2016

8.

https://twitter.com/JonAsfaw13/status/768586417274515460

9.

https://twitter.com/AhmedtheNasir/status/768576836204920832

10.

https://twitter.com/comradesipho/status/768814015669686272

11.

https://twitter.com/NamAfricanist/status/768806009787875328

12.

#IfAfricaWasAschool
Teacher: For our last exercise today, Convert $83,500 to your home currency,

Zimbabwean: pic.twitter.com/7F2cBnECum

— Kev (@Kevrx) August 25, 2016

13.

#ifAfricaWasAschool South Africa would be the cool kid who doesn't think they should be in school https://t.co/aL9Wh7LDvZ

— MaKhwalo (@weeh_khanya) August 24, 2016

14.

https://twitter.com/Skiwo/status/768738626498813952