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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Grumman: [b]''Why does your response give the impression that you view Africa through a racialist eurocentric lens?''[/b] Why is it racialist? [b]''Do you think Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique are a part of "east" Africa?''[/b] Argyle 104, if you run the longitude line from 90 degrees north to 90 degrees south, down the middle of the continent, as a [b]new starting point[/b] you will see Kenya and Uganda are on the [b]east[/b] side of the longitude line, with Kenya and Uganda straddling the equator. This means both Uganda and Kenya are in the [b]northern and southern[/b] hemisphere. Tanzania is also [b]east[/b] of the new starting point but in the [b]southern[/b] hemisphere entirely. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are in the southern hemisphere, that is, [b]below[/b] the equator but [b]east[/b] of the new starting point. Expressed another way those last three countries will be seen as being in [b]southern[/b] Africa, with a further technical location of east thrown in. It's called location. Now a mathmetician will tell you you don't need a new starting point (see above) because he will break out the calculator and add and subtract degrees and minutes and seconds to come up with a precise dividing line for the entire middle/center portion of the African continent―all from 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude...[b]east and south[/b][/QUOTE]Where is the "middle" of the African continent; and how was it arrived at? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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