The goal of this paper was to describe education in one of the poorest continents. Many people in Africa are still illiterate and do not have the financial means to go to school. Many graphs in the paper show the movement of the number of educated people, the number of young people who drop out of school, and even the larger number of children who are not educated at all. The paper also emphasizes the division of Africa into several regions in order to more easily show the movement of the educated and the development of higher education institutions. North Africa is very underdeveloped and contains a much larger number of children who are not educated at all, as well as young people who later enter schools. It is interesting to note that in most countries there is a difference in the age of educated children, for example the vast majority go to school from the age of 10 onwards, they do not have an age standard and division by type of school. Compared to other countries, African countries are part of an underdeveloped, poor and very poor educational situation. Parts of progress can be seen in the South and in sub-Saharan Africa, higher education institutions have been developed, but work must still be done to lift the continent out of great poverty, to try to help other countries and to provide opportunities for development.