Ethnocentrism

Afew days ago I spent some hours at a village school waiting for my respondents to turn up. I noticed this map painted on one of the walls outside, next to a diagram of the inner ear. I kind of liked the way for once it was the Africa part that was drawn in great detail, and the other continents that were neglected. Usually it's the other way round: Time and again while looking for soem African country in an atlas, I've had to flip through pages and pages on the internal states of certain Western countries, before finding that the country I was looking for had disappeared into the mid-page fold of the one page to which the entire continent of Africa had been relegated.