Injustice for Africa. Indeed, the implications go far beyond mere aesthetics or academic nitpicking. The warped projection has fueled a psychological and political underestimation of Africa’s ...

Africa's oldest map unveiled. By Alastair Leithead BBC correspondent in Cape Town The oldest map of the African continent, dating back to 1389, has ... "It's a political decision that places the ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. One recurring idea is to carve up the continent into smaller states on the basis of ethnicity or its proxies, like shared language.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.