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The Africa They Never show You is a Face Book group with over 210,000 members. It goes by this desription - ”You’ve seen the images on tv about africa: the huts, the famine, disease, wars and suffering but they never show you that Africa is beautiful, has happy people and that not every part and person in Africa is poor…..”. A few weeks ago we posted yet another variation to this theme – Does size matter?. This post subtly sought to draw a link between the true size of Africa and global perception of it’s importance.

The Real Africa as depicted pictorially and in words below is yet another variation of using the map of Africa to make simple statements about the image of the continent. The aim no doubt is to close the gap between those who see Africa solely as generally problematic and those who see the continent as home and “the land that roots take hold and don’t let go….”.

Hat Tip to Afrokletctic and ThatAfricanKid