Africa Re-Union Debuts at FNB Art Joburg at the Sandton Convention Center. The Africa Re-Union, a landmark artistic ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

On the surface, it’s just an old map—but every border tells a deeper story. This 1935 view of Africa offers a striking look into colonial power and how it shaped the continent ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa.

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Elizabeth Sawchuk receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Jessica Thompson has received funding from the Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society, ...

Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their fortunes waned over time. Although their ancient splendors disappeared from sight, ...

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 ...

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