The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use of a 16th-century map in favour of one that more accurately ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign urging governments and international bodies to abandon the 16th-century Mercator map, which distorts Africa’s true size, in favour of more accurate ...

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

It's fairly easy to look at a map of the world and see the clear similarities between the western coast of Africa and the eastern coast of South America, and how well these shapes fit together. It's ...

The ‘Correct The Map’ campaign, led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, is calling for adoption of the ...

10:35, Tue, Oct 15, 2024 Updated: 10:36, Tue, Oct 15, 2024 An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa with China, India and America all fitting inside. Article continues below ...

Students attending Boston public schools will get a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard map of the world that show North America and Europe ...

When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic, Braun said. The map’s mistakes were not likely to be a conspiracy against Africa or the Global South, but its continued use ...