more graph humor and song chart memes
*I would probably add lemurs to Madagascar and the Marrakesh Express to Morocco, but otherwise probably pretty accurate, huh?
more graph humor and song chart memes
*I would probably add lemurs to Madagascar and the Marrakesh Express to Morocco, but otherwise probably pretty accurate, huh?
9 replies on “The Way the World Sees Africa…”
Lemurs or hissing cockroaches, it’s a toss-up. BTW, Mada is missing on that map :) but you and I are used to that by now.
[…] Jillian posts a map of contents of Africa showing the way the rest of the world sees Africa. Posted by Ndesanjo Macha Print Version Share This […]
Where are the Nigerian spammers, Jillian? I think you’re selling West Africa short…
Of course, given the pathetic level of detail on Africa available on Google Maps, the map above is more or less what we’re able to find online…
You missed “The Lion King.”
I would color it orange and run it in stripes across the continent, like the stripes on a flag.
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing it. Would love to embellish it a little more, but that would destroy the impact.
[…] fact, I noted just a month or so ago that I had very few readers from Africa; that changed when I posted a GraphJam map mocking the world view of the continent and Uganda Scarlett Lion picked up the post. I now have a […]
Why isn’t Sudan at least place at the correct location? Is that also a pun on the knowledge of the commoner?
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Nigerian spammers, and Chelsea fc training centre in Ivory Coast !! and you forget Bad, mad Uncle bob’s lunatic asylum in Zim !!!!!