It is interesting to me how people's view of other countries is distorted, wrong or so way off it is funny. I have been asked which country in South Africa I was from, and I didn't feel that confusing them with Lesotho would help. And of course, there is the inevitable, "I have a friend from Ethiopia, perhaps you know her?" (Really!).
What is interesting to me about the map below is that even I was surprised at the size of Africa. I remembering hearing how Namibia was equal to large portions of Europe, but the regular map we see is really so distorted. Part of the ignorance I can blame on education, but a lot is just the myth the media perpetuates.....Africa is small and irrelevant....
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