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How big is Africa?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 12:30 pm

I would venture to say that most of us have no idea how huge the African continent really is. Some commonly used map projections have tended to reinforce the idea that it’s really not all that big. But. It. Is.

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Comment from Lynn
Time: June 17, 2009, 5:13 pm

Whoa, quit messing with my me-centric universe!

Comment from Juha Valta
Time: June 30, 2009, 1:21 am

Hey, thank you very much for elaborating again our worldviews! i love this as I did my thsesis on geographical world views of the Finnish missionary kids in ten countries.

Africa is great and it is huge! But when yo come from a tiny country like Finland, the starting point is maybe slightly different. We were born to a small country and know that the World is bigger than our country.

May God bless your work richly,

Juha Valta
Wycliffe Finland
director