http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography

In Mr Krause's map (above) he seems to have used the shapes of the countries from a Mercator projection, but has scaled up the outline of Africa, without changing its shape, to show the appropriate area.

An alternative and arguably more rigorous approach would be to repeat the exercise using an "equal area" projection that shows the countries' areas correctly while minimising shape distortion. These two properties are the hardest to balance when showing the whole world on one map. I decided to rework Mr Krause's map using Gall's Stereographic Cylindrical Projection (1855) with two standard parallels at 45°N and 45°S.

Distortions are still evident at the poles, but for most countries shape is maintained, and their areas are shown correctly. As you can see (below), the results are distinct from Mr Krause's map. But however you look at it, his point is a good one: Africa is much bigger than it looks on most maps.

This is an image of the true size of Africa. You will appreciate why we will become the next battle ground.

As China, India and the United States fight over fresh water, precious minerals and arable farm land with a projected world population of 9 Billion.

Interesting.

If we can get our acts together Africa can be a growing superpower; these ideas are some of the reasons that mad man Ghaddafi was murdered. Africa is really full of enormous potentials.

This is an excerpt of a British Journalist on the Democratic Republic of Congo which is far more blessed than us in Natural Resources:-

The canyon below is choked with mud, while trucks belonging to the mine’s Canadian owners are carting loads of earth to be spun, crushed and sprayed with cyanide. They aim to produce 150,000 ounces of gold a year here. This is a smashed, brutal landscape, its mountains levelled, its rivers blocked.

The DRC contains 80 per cent of the world’s columbite-tantalite (coltan) reserves (a vital component of smartphones and iPads), 49 per cent of its cobalt reserves, and titanic amounts of copper, gold and diamonds. Yet poverty, famine, disease and war have been all that the Congolese people have reaped from their bounty.

The Congolese people I see are utterly pessimistic about their nation’s future. They tell a joke about evil men in hell being allowed a phone call by the devil. Saddam Hussein and Hitler pay a lot of money to call Iraq and Germany, but Mobutu is allowed to phone the Congo for hours at little cost. Why? “We’re in hell. Congo is a local call.”

Dan Snow’s History of the Congo is on Wednesday, 9pm, BBC2

We are there to see the mighty river; the Congo, the second largest by volume of water in the world.I have never seen rapids like those on the Congo.

The Inga dams alone, if properly developed, could meet the whole of Africa’s energy needs.

Two wiry young men guide us to the Ulala rapids and 90 minutes later we are at a mighty cataract, churning water piled high in waves the size of apartment blocks. With only 15 minutes before sunset we film and then slog back uphill through the sudden African darkness.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-where-hell-is-just-a-local-call-away-8859863.html

The richest man that ever lived is from Africa. He is King Mansa Musa of the great empire of Mali before the Europeans embraced civilization. We had Egypt, Mali and Cush e.t.c