The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is... The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the ...

“A map is not just a technical tool, but a symbol, and symbols matter. For us, correcting the map also means correcting the global narrative about Africa,” says Fara Ndiaye, co-founder and deputy ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent ...

According to the latest studies, the African continent is splitting apart. Once this process is finalized, a new ocean and two new land masses will arise. Coastlines and underwater habitats will be ...

We’ve pulled together eight maps that put Africa’s population, income, growth, and potential into context. 1. Where the world’s 7 billion live National Geographic‘s map illustrates where and how the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...

UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze prepares samples for a strontium isotope analysis. Postdoctoral fellow Xueye Wang and UCSC graduate and undergraduate students processed hundreds of ...