Africa is a land of opposites. Among its people are the tiny Pygmies and the giant Watusi. It has the ferocious lion and gentle domestic animal. It is a home of the pygmy deer and the huge and not so gentle African elephant. Africa has the poisonous asp and non poisonous, but equally daangerous, python. The rhinoceros a throwback to the stone age, lives there as well as the ibis the sacred bird of ancient egypt. Africa is trully a land of contrasts. It has the greatest desert area in the world. Yet has a thousands square miles of coastline and it has a desperate need for harbors. It is the beautiful, the inviting still is the home of some of the most dreaded diseases. So africa in a way has sometimes been a barrier to her town potential greatness. Africa and Asia vie for the honor of being the largest continents in the world. What is included or left out as apart of these continents makes first one and then the other declared the biggest the judgement depends, of course on the writer setting down the facts. But there is no uncertainly aboit africa being 11,860, 000 square miles in the area.
Well, such is life. That's why we have words and opposites. Nice article about Africa. Keep it up.