Even in a place as loved and well-travelled, there are places which continue to defy our digital maps. These places are ...

10) Dropa Stones: The Dropa (or Dzopa) stones are part of a controversial and widely regarded as mythical story that blends ...

Hundreds of people died on Sept. 21, 1938, when one of the most destructive hurricanes of the 20th century crashed ashore in ...

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and others ...

Although modern-day Turkey and the European coast are separated by water, the sea levels dropped more than 100 meters during ...

Our Global Sports Editor Ossian Shine brings you Inside Track — your essential guide to the weekend in sport, from Rwanda’s ...

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 ...

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

The General History of Africa (GHA) is a flagship initiative of the UNESCO Operational Strategy for Priority Africa (2022–2029). It seeks to fundamentally reshape how African history is taught and ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The call is a demand for Africans to be represented on their own terms, rather than through cartographic traditions that have long diminished their scale and significance. The African Union has ...