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

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

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 ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

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

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

A man, center, carries a map with the African continent on it at a local market in the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014.

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April.

The President of the African Editors Forum (TAEF), Churchill Otieno, has called on African journalists to reframe the African ...

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 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...