When I saw this poster, it literally blew me away by the size of the continent on which I am living at the moment. And all those countries that are layed over the outline do not even acocunt for the actual entire mass. I hope that this puts the countinent into more of a perspective for people to follow. It is frusterating to hear people refering to Africa as one giant country when, in fact, it is made up of 56 countries that are very different and unique in their own ways. Also, the lines that determine countries were arbitrarily assinged at the Berlin Conference in the late 1800's when Western Europeans divided up Africa into "bite-sized chunks" that made sense to them, but did not make any sense at all regarding the actual establishment of the regional Kingdoms. Anyway, enjoy the map and all the information that it has to offer.
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