African countries

One of those compulsive and not particularly useful things I’ve wanted to do for a while was brush up on my knowledge of African geography. The intricacies of just which little strip in west Africa is named Benin, and which Togo and the like has eluded me. Until now. I came across a silly, but addictive online game, the Africa Geography game. Horrified by my first performance, I just had to compulsively play it until I got all the countries first time. And then move on to South America, Europe and the middle-east to do the same. Perhaps I’m not a better person for it, and I certainly don’t know anything more useful about Gabon than I did before, but I’ve successfully scratched another itch (and it was a lot easier than writing a book).

There’re also US, Canadian and Australian state versions, but those didn’t particular interest me.